Gravitational Turbulence in Large D

Specialist level
Speaker: 
Christiana Pantelidou
Institution: 
Trinity College Dublin
Abstract: 

Focusing on the simplest set-up, namely asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes in a large number of dimensions, I will show that forced black holes exhibit statistically steady turbulence consistent with Kolmogorov’s theory of 1941. I will also demonstrate that tidal deformations of the horizon can induce turbulent dynamics.