Theory Group Qualifier

Stefan Eccles, UT-Austin

"Shock Waves and de Sitter Entropy"

3:00pm, RLM 9.222

Abstract: Various relationships between quantities in general relativity have been shown to obey thermodynamic laws in a way that is not entirely understood. Entropy has been associated with horizons in multiple contexts (specifically black hole horizons and cosmological event horizons).  I will talk about our current efforts to substantiate a conjecture that shockwave solutions to Einstein's equations may also have an associated entropy.