Speaker
Tobias Wiseman
(Imperial College)
Description
Ricci flow potentially provides a tool to allow explicit numerical
construction of black hole metrics of interest in physics.
Whilst in 4 dimensions stationary black holes of interest are known
analytically, I will discuss how black holes in theories with extra
dimensions (such as string theory) are generally not known
analytically. Then a numerical construction of the metric is likely
the only way to examine them. I will show that black holes (of
interest) are actually unstable fixed points of Ricci flow and I will
discuss how to use the flow in practice for this application.
