Matthieu Vilatte (Paris, Thessaloniki): Probing the asymptotic structure of 4d Einstein gravity: flat from AdS

Dienstag, 16. Jänner 2024 14:00

Ort: Erwin-Schrödinger-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stock

My talk will focus on the structure of gravity at large distances and especially on how one can get insights on the asymptotically flat structure from the one of Anti-de Sitter spacetimes. I will start by recalling some basics on the gauge fixing approach to the IR structure of gravity, insisting on the fundamental examples of the Fefferman-Graham and Bondi gauges and on asymptotically AdS and flat spacetimes. As Ricci flat solutions are usually obtained from a the \Lambda -> 0 limit of Einstein´s spacetimes, I will describe how one can get the flat solution space and flux/balance equations from a careful Laurent expansion of the AdS energy-momentum tensor and the requirement of the line-element finiteness, the analysis being conducted in a covariant version of the Newman-Unti gauge that will be presented prior to these developments.

Location:

Erwin-Schrödinger-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5. Stock