Conveners
Gravitational instantons and black holes: Friday block 1
- Reinoud Slagter (ASFYON, Astronomisch Fysisch Onderzoek Nederland)
Gravitational instantons and black holes: Friday block 2
- Reinoud Slagter (ASFYON, Astronomisch Fysisch Onderzoek Nederland)
Description
This parallel session covers instanton solutions on pseudo-Riemannian and Riemannian spacetime. These solutions originate from quantum field theory on Euclidean space, e.g. from Yang-Mills gauge theories. Their connections/curvatures are self-dual. In gravity, there are a handful of exact solutions. They have vanishing classical action and nontrivial topological invariant. The relation to quantum gravity is then easy. One can also relate these solutions to (primordial) black holes. After the discovery of black holes in the very early stages of the universe, the question arises as to how they came into being. Probably by an instanton. On the other hand, when a black hole evaporates completely, what is left behind? Related subjects: Kรคhler manifold, complex manifolds, symplectic structure, n-instanton moduli spaces.