Cosmic censorship in a (dual) collider

March 3, 2025
3:00pm to 4:00pm

IFT Seminar Room/Red Room

Specialist level
Speaker: 
Javier Subils
Institution: 
Utrecht University
Location&Place: 

IFT Seminar Room/Red Room

Abstract: 

We investigate cosmic censorship in anti-de Sitter space in holographic models in which the ground state is described by a good singularity. These include supersymmetric truncations of string/M-theory, for which a positive-energy theorem holds. At the boundary, our solutions describe a boost-invariant fluid in which the temperature decreases monotonically with time. On the gravity side, they correspond to black-brane spacetimes with a receding horizon. In classical gravity, curvature invariants at the horizon grow without bound. In the full theory this regime may or may not be reached. In some cases it is avoided by a phase transition to a regular geometry. In others it is reached but the boundary hydrodynamic evolution can be continued, provided the equation of state at parametrically small energies is known. Both cases require the inclusion of finite-N or finite-coupling effects.

Este seminario es parte del proyecto de I+D+i con referencia CEX2020-001007-S, financiado por MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033)