Quantum and classical fields interacting with geometry, Paris

Mini-course: Geometry of Killing horizons and applications to black hole physics

Mar 21, 2024, 11:00 AM

1h

amphithéâtre Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (new building - bâtiment Perrin)

Speaker

Eric Gourgoulhon (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris)

Description

V. Hands-on session: exploring the extremal Kerr near-horizon geometry with SageMath

1. Introduction to SageMath
2. The extremal Kerr throat
3. NHEK metric
4. Killing vectors and Lie algebra of the isometry group