The proceedings of our meeting on conformal methods at the Royal Society in May 2024 has appeared! A particular highlight is a contribution by Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel laureate. @QMULMaths https://t.co/AxsTamvBqn
The proceedings of our meeting on conformal methods at the Royal Society in May 2024 has appeared! A particular highlight is a contribution by Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel laureate.
https://t.co/AxsTamvBqn
Worry about infinity in general relativity?
You can determine whether we are at infinity by observing perturbed black holes.
Black-hole perturbations eventually switch to a pure power-law decay. Surprisingly, the decay rate is different at finite distances and infinity.
A comparison of Ashtekar’s and Friedrich’s formalisms of spatial infinity https://t.co/Kghd6mFPEu via @IOPscience My latest article with my student Mariem discusses the relation between two influential formulations of spatial infinity in GR.
My first scientific conference was the 50-year celebration of Choquet-Bruhat’s seminal 1952 paper on the initial value problem in general relativity. I considered her to be very old back then. Her sharpness, kindness, and humility at that age made a big impression on me.