Saturday, 11 April 2015

homework and exercises - Contracted Christoffel symbol in BSSN formulation


Can someone kindly please help and explain how can obtain this equation?


Γi=γjkΓijk=1|γ|l(|γ| γil)



where Γi= (3)Γi are the 3D Christoffel symbols and γij is the spatial metric tensor. The source is the book "Numerical Relativity" (Baumgarte, Shapiro), Eq. 4.40. (in this book the equation uses the 4D metric and the 4D Christoffel symbols, but in the Baumgarte video lectures he uses the above equation.) Here BSSN is the Baumgarte-Shapiro-Shibata-Nakamura formulation.


Thanks



Answer



I will assume that γij has signature (1,1,1), so that we don't need the absolute value for γ in your expression. To calculate the RHS you need to use the product rule and Jacobi's formula for calculating the derivative of a determinant lγ=γγijlγij. Using this you should get 1γl(γγil)=...=1γ(γlγil+γil12γγjklγjk).


Now you need to calculate the derivative of the inverse of the metric, you can do this using γijγjk=δik. This should get you to 1γl(γγil)=(γijγkllγjk12γilγjklγjk). If you now calculate the LHS using the definition and the symmetry of the Christoffel symbols you should get the desired equality (be aware of matching the dummy indices).


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