PSI 2018/2019 - Strong Field Gravity (East)

Introduction/ Kerr metric---horizon, ergoregion, symmetries

Geodesics on the Kerr spacetime

Review of black hole thermodynamics

General Penrose type processes including superradiance 

Superradiant instability or Blandford-Znajek mechanism (time permitting) 

3+1 formalism for decomposing spacetime 

3+1 formalism for decomposing spacetime continued 

Introduction to initial value problems and well posedness 

Initial data problem and generalized harmonic formulation 

Degrees of freedom and Initial data  

Energy and angular momentum of gravitational waves and quadrupole formula 

Black hole perturbation theory