Differential Geometry Seminar: Global Stability of Spacetimes with Supersymmetric Compactifications
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024, 12:10 pm - 1:00 pm
- Location: Engineering North N218
- Contact: Marcos Orseli
- Email: marcos.orseli@adelaide.edu.au
- Zoe Wyatt University of Cambridge
Compact spaces with special holonomy, such as Calabi-Yau manifolds, play an important role in supergravity and string theory.
In this talk, I will present a recent result showing the stability of a spacetime which is the cartesian product of Minkowski spacetime and a compact special holonomy space. I will also explain how this stability result relates to conjectures of Penrose and Witten. This is based on joint work with L. Andersson, P. Blue and S-T. Yau.
Speaker:
- Zoe Wyatt (University of Cambridge)