PGI Spring Seminar|Zoe Wyatt|University of Cambridge|"Stabilizing Relativistic Fluids on Slowly Expanding Cosmological Spacetimes "

Date
Mar 28, 2022, 12:30 pm12:30 pm
Location
Princeton Gravity Initiative

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"On a background Minkowski spacetime, the relativistic Euler equations are known, for a relatively general equation of state, to admit unstable homogeneous solutions with finite-time shock formation. By contrast, such shock formation can be suppressed on background cosmological spacetimes whose spatial slices expand at an accelerated rate. The critical case of linear, ie zero-accelerated, spatial expansion, is not as well understood. In this talk, I will present two recent works concerning the relativistic Euler and the Einstein-Dust equations for geometries expanding at a linear rate. This is based on joint works with David Fajman (Vienna), Todd Oliynyk (Monash) and Max Ofner (Vienna)."