The inextendibility of the Schwarzschild spacetime as a Lorentzian manifold with a continuous metric

par Prof. Jan SBIERSKI (Cambridge, UK)

lundi 22 mai 2017, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Paris

Centre de conférences Marilyn et James Simons (IHES)

Séminaire de Relativité Générale Mathématique

 

The maximal analytic Schwarzschild spacetime is manifestly inextendible as a Lorentzian manifold with a twice continuously differentiable metric. In this talk I will describe how one proves the stronger statement that the maximal analytic Schwarzschild spacetime is inextendible as a Lorentzian manifold with a continuous metric. The investigation of low-regularity inextendibility criteria is motivated by the strong cosmic censorship conjecture in general relativity.