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Curtis Porter, NC State, Spinning Black Holes and CR 3-Folds

September 4, 2018 | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT

Some physically significant solutions to Einstein’s field equations are spacetimes which are foliated by a family of curves called a shear-free null geodesic congruence (SFNGC). Examples include models of gravitational waves that were recently detected, and rotating black holes. The properties of a SFNGC induce a CR structure on the 3-dimensional leaf space of the foliation. The Kerr Theorem says that the family of metrics associated to a SFNGC contains a conformally flat representative iff the corresponding CR structure is embeddable in a 5-dimensional real hyperquadric. Using Cartan’s method of moving frames, we can classify which Levi-nondegenerate CR 3-folds are embeddable in the hyperquadric.

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September 4, 2018
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT
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