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Sept. 5: Jonathan Luk (Stanford)

Title: The strong cosmic censorship conjecture in general relativity

Abstract:
The Einstein equations in general relativity admit explicit black hole solutions which have the disturbing property that global uniqueness fails in the sense that the solutions have non-uniqueness extensions which are not determined by the initial data. As a way out, Penrose proposed the strong cosmic censorship conjecture, which says that this phenomenon of global non-uniqueness is non-generic. We will discuss this conjecture and some recent mathematical progress. This talk is based on joint works with Mihalis Dafermos, Sung-Jin Oh, Jan Sbierski and Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman.

Wednesday, September 5, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.

Mathematics 520
Tea will be served at 4:00 p.m.

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