Theory Group Seminar

Dr. Benson Way, University of British Columbia

"Instability of AdS with Angular Momenta"

Abstract: Global Anti-deSitter space suffers from a nonlinear instability where small excitations of energy E form black holes on a timescale of t ~ 1/E. However, some initial data appears to lie within an "island of stability," where collapse does not occur within t >> 1/E. Furthermore, evidence for the instability has mostly been restricted to zero angular momenta. I will discuss some recent progress towards understanding these islands of stability, and in incorporating angular momenta.