On a recent proof of the instability of AdS for the Einstein-null dust system

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• Mihalis Dafermos (DAMTP)
• Wednesday 14 June 2017, 14:15-15:15
• MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

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I will first review the conjectured instability of AdS spacetime in classical general relativity. I will then describe a recent breakthrough on this problem which was just very recently obtained here in Cambridge by a graduate student, Georgios Moschidis, who has proven this instability in the setting of the Einstein-null dust system under spherical symmetry, with an additional inner mirror. This is the simplest setting where the problem can be posed and gives hope that a definitive resolution of the conjecture will be obtained.

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