Seminar is held on Tuesdays at 13:10 pm in the lecture room of the Institute
on the 10th floor of the department building at Trója, V Holešovičkách 2, Prague 8
Taub–NUT spacetimes are related by double Wick rotations to the near-horizon extreme Kerr geometry and to the swirling universe. Similarly, the planar Reissner-Nordström solution can be mapped to the Melvin spacetime. We show that this is not a peculiarity of individual solutions in general relativity. Rather, double Wick rotations establish mappings between entire classes of spacetime symmetries, independently of the underlying geometric theory of gravity. This provides a systematic way of generating new solutions in a given theory from known ones by exploiting the correspondence between these symmetry classes.
I will show a complete classification of D-dimensional Kundt spacetimes of Weyl type N and traceless Ricci type N in (anti-)de Sitter. Using a coordinate system with almost-Killing normalization, I will provide invariant subfamilies (generalzed Siklos, pp-, and Kundt waves) and present their canonical forms.
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In this talk, I will present new rotating black hole solutions of the low-energy effective action of string theory in three and four dimensions. These geometries are asymptotically flat with a linear dilaton vacuum and exhibit unusual thermodynamic properties, including a mass-independent Hawking temperature. I will also discuss charged extensions, which lead to closed time-like curves inside the inner horizon. Finally, I will show that these solutions arise from the large-d limit of singly rotating Myers–Perry black holes.
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A series of works by Belinskii, Khalatnikov and Lifshitz (BKL) conjectured that spacetime near a generic spacelike singularity locally behaves in a chaotic way. Since BKL conjecture concerns very strong gravity regimes, it is natural to ask how quantum gravity influences it. We tackle this question by looking at perturbative quantum corrections to Bianchi I and II metrics approximating the relevant features of BKL conjecture. We argue that even such perturbative effects can completely change the nature of BKL dynamics. While we work in the framework of thermodynamic gravity, our findings also apply to the effective dynamics of loop quantum cosmology.
I will describe a new construction of Ricci flat metrics using gauged linear sigma models satisfying the Calabi-Yau condition. The approach will be introductory using elementary examples to illustrate the main points and to underline the connection between physical and mathematical concepts.
David Kubizňák Oldřich Semerák