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Symmetry-seeking spacetime coordinates

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arxiv gr-qc/9908016 v2 pith:KUUNF2RV submitted 1999-08-05 gr-qc

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In numerically constructing a spacetime that has an approximate timelike Killing vector, it is useful to choose spacetime coordinates adapted to the symmetry, so that the metric and matter variables vary only slowly with time in these coordinates. In particular, this is a crucial issue in numerically calculating a binary black hole inspiral. An approximate homothetic vector plays a role in critical gravitational collapse. We summarize old and new suggestions for finding such coordinates from a general point of view. We then test some of these in various toy models with spherical symmetry, including critical fluid collapse and critical scalar field collapse.

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