PIRSA:17110053

Gravitational shockwaves on rotating black holes

(2017). Gravitational shockwaves on rotating black holes. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/17110053

Gravitational shockwaves on rotating black holes. Perimeter Institute, Nov. 28, 2017, https://pirsa.org/17110053 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:17110053,
            doi = {10.48660/17110053},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/17110053},
            author = {},
            keywords = {Quantum Fields and Strings},
            language = {en},
            title = {Gravitational shockwaves on rotating black holes},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2017},
            month = {nov},
            note = {PIRSA:17110053 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }
DOI 10.48660/17110053
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

Gravitational shockwaves may signal the breakdown of effective field theory near black hole horizons. Motivated by this, I will revisit the Dray-‘t Hooft solution and explain how to generalize it to the Kerr-Newman background. In doing so I will emphasize the method of spin coefficients (the Newman-Penrose formalism) in its compacted form (the Geroch-Held-Penrose formalism).