21–26 Jun 2026
U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building
America/Toronto timezone
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Not all four dimensional Black Holes can spin

25 Jun 2026, 14:30
15m
U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building

U. Ottawa - Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building

100 Louis-Pasteur Private, Ottawa, ON K1N 9N3
Oral (Non-Student) / Orale (non-étudiant(e)) Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT) (DTP) R1-5 | (DPT)

Speaker

Dr Javier Peraza (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

Description

In the last decades, black hole solutions with non-standard topologies or non-standard asymptotic behaviour have gained considerable attention. An early example of this are the periodic static solutions in 3+1 dimensions, where infinitely many coaxial, equidistant, identical black holes are stacked in an array along the axis. Each solution is completely characterized by the area $A$ of the black holes and the distance $D$ between two consecutive black holes. These solutions are referred as periodic Schwarzschild since there is a single static horizon in the fundamental domain.

A natural question, relevant to both the context of classification of stationary solutions and to the existence of solutions with non-standard topologies, is whether a periodic Kerr solution exists or not. In this talk, we will discuss different techniques used to answer this question, in particular a recent result that shows that a static Myers/Korotkin-Nicolai solution cannot be put into stationary rotation if $12 D < \sqrt{A}$. This result establishes a novel static rigidity in 3+1 solutions.

Keyword-1 Black Hole Physics
Keyword-2 Mathematical Physics
Keyword-3 General Relativity

Author

Dr Javier Peraza (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)

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