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TheBSSN formalism (Baumgarte, Shapiro, Shibata, Nakamura formalism) is aformalism ofgeneral relativity that was developed byThomas W. Baumgarte,Stuart L. Shapiro, Masaru Shibata and Takashi Nakamura between 1987 and 1999.[1] It is a modification of theADM formalism developed during the 1950s.
The ADM formalism is aHamiltonian formalism that does not permit stable and long-term numerical simulations. In the BSSN formalism, the ADM equations are modified by introducing auxiliary variables. The formalism has been tested for a long-term evolution of linear gravitational waves and used for a variety of purposes such as simulating the non-linear evolution ofgravitational waves or the evolution and collision ofblack holes.[2][3]
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