Self-gravitating elastic bodies

Mon, 25/02
17:00
Lars Andersson (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) Partial Differential Equations Seminar Add to calendar Gibson 1st Floor SR
Self-gravitating elastic bodies provide models for extended objects in general relativity. I will discuss constructions of static and rotating self-gravitating bodies, as well as recent results on the initial value problem for self-gravitating elastic bodies.