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1Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany. bernd.bruegmann@uni-jena.de.
Abstract:
Einstein's theory of general relativity affords an enormously successful description of gravity. The theory encodes the gravitational interaction in the metric, a tensor field on spacetime that satisfies partial differential equations known as the Einstein equations. This review introduces some of the fundamental concepts of numerical relativity-solving the Einstein equations on the computer-in simple terms. As a primary example, we consider the solution of the general relativistic two-body problem, which features prominently in the new field of gravitational wave astronomy.
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