Geometry of Killing horizons

Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, 18-21 March 2024


These pages accompany Éric Gourgoulhon's lectures within the program Quantum and classical fields interacting with geometry organized at Institut Henri Poincaré on March-April 2024.

Schedule

  1. Null hypersurfaces and non-expanding horizons, Monday 18 March, 9:30 am - 10:30 am
  2. Killing horizons, Monday 18 March, 11:00 am - 12:00 am
  3. Stationary black holes, Tuesday 19 March, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
  4. Degenerate Killing horizons and their near-horizon geometry, Tuesday 19 March, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  5. Exploring the extremal Kerr near-horizon geometry with SageMath, Thursday 21 March, 11:00 am - 12:00 am

The prerequisite is having followed an introductory course of general relativity, at the level of a master's degree.

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