Date/heure
26 février 2019
14:00 - 15:00
Oratrice ou orateur
Allen Fang
Catégorie d'évènement Séminaire des doctorants
Résumé
Einstein’s equations have sparked much imagination in pop culture, but mathematically, are still very mysterious. In this talk, I will introduce the question of stability and long-time asymptotic behavior in mathematical relativity, beginning with the crucial result of Choquet-Bruhat that allowed Einstein’s equations to be viewed as a system of second-order hyperbolic equations. From there, I will introduce the basic concepts at the heart of the vectorfield method (which led to the pioneering work of Christodoulou and Klainerman demonstrating nonlinear stability of Minkowski space), using the free wave as the underlying motivator. Finally, I will present some brief ideas related to integrated local energy and geometric difficulties that come up when studying asymptotic behavior on non-flat spacetimes.