A new proof for the nonlinear stability of slowly-rotating Kerr-de Sitter

Thu Feb 15, 2024 4:00 p.m.—5:00 p.m.
Exterior of Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall featuring a stone carving of Yale's coat of arms and motto

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Seminar: 
Analysis

Event time: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 4:00pm

Location: 
KT 801

Speaker: 
Allen Juntao Fang

Speaker affiliation: 
Princeton University- University of Munster

Event description: 
Black hole stability has seen numerous important developments in the past decade. In my talk, I will focus on the nonlinear stability of the slowly-rotating Kerr-de Sitter family. Nonlinear stability of the slowly-rotating Kerr-de Sitter family was first proven by Hintz and Vasy in 2016 using microlocal techniques. In my talk, I will present a new proof of the nonlinear stability of slowly-rotating Kerr-de Sitter spacetimes that utilizes the vectorfield method to uncover the high-frequency spectral gap in Kerr-de Sitter, connecting the physical-space and frequency-space approaches. The proof also uses a new scheme to prove nonlinear stability, avoiding Nash-Moser.

Research Area(s): 
Analysis & PDE

Special note: 
Seminar talk is supported in part by the Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Fund.