Pau Figueras (London): Non‐spherically symmetric collapse in asymptotically AdS spacetimes

Donnerstag, 08. November 2018 14:00

Ort: Raum 218, Währinger Str. 17, 2. Stock

In this talk I’m going to present our recent studies on gravitational collapse in asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes away from spherical symmetry. Starting from initial data sourced by a massless real scalar field, we solve the Einstein equations with a negative cosmological constant in five spacetime dimensions and obtain a family of non-spherically symmetric solutions, including those that form two distinct black holes on the axis. We find that these configurations collapse faster than spherically symmetric ones of the same mass and radial compactness. Similarly, they require less mass to collapse within a fixed time.

Location:

Raum 218, Währinger Str. 17, 2. Stock