Event

Talk
The Black Hole Stability Problem
Dr. Gustav Holzegel (Imperial College London)
14 Oct 2014, 15:30 – 16:30

A fundamental open problem in general relativity is to establish the non-linear stability of the Kerr-family of black holes. After discussing the definitive decay results obtained in the context of the free scalar wave equation on Kerr-spacetimes (and the mechanisms that underly them) I will outline our recent proof of the linear stability of the Schwarzschild solution under gravitational perturbations. The latter is joint work with Dafermos and Rodnianski.

Homepage Dr. Gustav Holzegel: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/AP/faces/pages/read/Home.jsp?person=g.holzegel&_adf.ctrl-state=18asmq4rwz_3&_afrRedirect=1228542173973672