PIRSA:18050063

Phases of Gravitational Collapse in AdS

Frey, A. (2018). Phases of Gravitational Collapse in AdS. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/18050063

Frey, Andrew. Phases of Gravitational Collapse in AdS. Perimeter Institute, May. 23, 2018, https://pirsa.org/18050063 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:18050063,
            doi = {10.48660/18050063},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/18050063},
            author = {Frey, Andrew},
            keywords = {Quantum Fields and Strings},
            language = {en},
            title = {Phases of Gravitational Collapse in AdS},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2018},
            month = {may},
            note = {PIRSA:18050063 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Andrew Frey

University of Winnipeg

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Abstract

Generically, a small amount of matter introduced to anti-de Sitter spacetime leads to formation of a black hole; however, the high degree of symmetry of AdS means that some initial distributions of matter (possibly also technically generic) oscillate indefinitely. Whether a given initial profile leads to a horizon at arbitrarily small amplitudes is of great interest for a number of reasons, not least because horizon formation corresponds holographically to thermalization in CFT.  We will present an overview of approaches the question and show a phase diagram of the stability behavior of AdS in the presence of a scalar field, including an analysis of nonperturbative phases at the border of perturbative stability and instability.