[Users] debugging kranc .m

Comer Duncan comer.duncan at gmail.com
Wed Aug 12 10:17:52 CDT 2015


Here are the two files. Sorry.

Comer

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Comer Duncan <comer.duncan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Ian,
>
> I've made some changes taking info from the WeylScalar thorn stuff, but
> apparently not really well enough.  I am attaching the BrillAnalytic.err
> and BrillAnalytic.m files.  The error I get indicates that there is a big
> mismatch between expected argument number (2) and 'passed' (17)!.  I can
> not tell where this is coming from from the error.  Can you take a look,
> please?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Comer
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Ian Hinder <ian.hinder at aei.mpg.de>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 11 Aug 2015, at 15:07, Comer Duncan <comer.duncan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ian,
>>
>> Yes, I have a recurring error which I can't track down. In fact there are
>> probably several things wrong with the script.  I am attaching the script
>> BrillAnalytic.m and BrillAnalytic.err.  I can not seem to locate a missing
>> paren or bracket or brace.  vi tells me that there is a mismatch of 1 in
>> the occurrence of a '[' and a ']' .  Also I am not at all sure that I have
>> configured the calculation of TrRicci correctly.  On one hand I specify
>> gxx,gxy,gxz, etc but never associate these expressions with g[la,lb].  I
>> guess I don't understand well enough the working of Kranc.  Thanks for
>> taking a look!
>>
>>
>> Hi Comer,
>>
>> Observations in the order I have them:
>>
>>
>>    - You can't define q[rho1_,zcyl_] in the way that you have, inside
>>    the calculation.  The mathematica expression f[x_] := y has the effect of
>>    defining the function f, but returns Null.  So you effectively have
>>
>>
>>     epsi -> one,
>>     Null,
>>     rho1 -> Sqrt[x*x + y*y],
>>
>> in your calculation.  Just move this to outside the calculation.
>>
>> Get["KrancThorn`]"; should be Get["KrancThorn`"];  *that* was a subtle
>> mistake!  I commented out the whole of the rest of the file before I found
>> it! The issue is that the closing parenthesis is inside the string (before
>> the ") so Mathematica thinks the whole of the rest of the file is inside
>> the Get[], and when it reaches the end of the file, it complains that the
>> Get hasn't been terminated.  This is your main error.
>>
>> 1/detg detgExpr is indeed 1.  However, detg is calculated from g only
>> once, rather than in every component of gu, so it is more efficient.
>>
>> You need to define g as a tensor.  Anything which is used as a tensor in
>> the .m file needs to be defined as a tensor with DefineTensor.  This is the
>> cause of the RecursionLimit errors, which happen in MatrixInverse.  Kranc
>> could in fact detect this; I am thinking about how to add such a check.
>>
>> The standard 3+1 metric variables are defined in the ADMBase thorn, and
>> are called gxx, gxy, etc.  Kranc needs tensors to be called g11, g12, etc,
>> so we usually just redefine these components: g11=gxx; g21=gxy; g22=gyy;
>> g31=gxz; g32=gyz; g33=gzz
>>
>> You might want to take a look at
>>
>>
>> https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/einsteinanalysis/src/master/WeylScal4/m/WeylScal4.m
>>
>> which is a thorn for computing the Weyl scalars from the ADMBase
>> variables, which is similar to what you are trying to do in TrRicciCalc.
>>
>> --
>> Ian Hinder
>> http://members.aei.mpg.de/ianhin
>>
>>
>
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