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Séminaire / Seminar GReCO

« News from the Robinson–Trautman Spacetime »

Ali Seraj
Inst. Theoretical Physics Mathematics (IPM) (Téhéran, Iran)

The Robinson–Trautman (RT) spacetime is an algebraically special solution of
the vacuum Einstein equations with interesting properties. The radiative
nature of this spacetime is obscured by the usual coordinate system used to
describe it. I will derive the coordinate transformations to bring the
metric into a Bondi–Sachs form and thereby read off radiative data. I will
show that, in the absence of radiation, the solution corresponds to the
vacuum sector of Euclidean Liouville theory. Moreover, upon linearization,
the solution is a superposition of special quasi-normal modes of the
Schwarzschild black hole. Finally, nonlinear effects—including memory—and
the emergence of resonant modes in the radiation will be discussed.
lundi 27 octobre 2025 - 11:00
Salle des séminaires Évry Schatzman
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
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