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17.05.2024   at 11:30 - 13:00

QTC Journal Club: Lorentzian-Euclidean black holes: a way to avoid singularities

Speaker: Emmanuele Battista, Postdoc
Abstract: In this seminar, we investigate a Schwarzschild metric whose signature changes upon crossing the event horizon. In particular, when r > 2M the metric has the usual Lorentzian signature; then, at r = 2M it becomes degenerate, and when r < 2M  it attains the ultrahyperbolic signature. In this scenario, the time variable is real-valued outside the event horizon and becomes imaginary inside it. This geometry gives rise to what we term a Lorentzian-Euclidean black hole. The underlying Riemann tensor exhibits Dirac-delta-like singularities which we regularize by employing the Hadamard partie finie technique. In this way, we demonstrate that the Lorentzian-Euclidean metric represents a solution of the vacuum Einstein equations. The analysis of the motion of radially moving observers reveals that the black-hole singularity can be avoided. The seminar is based on ArXiv: 2404.17267

Location: The DIAS Meetingroom Syd (V22-503a-2)
You can also join via Zoom (passcode: 060379).

The event is open to all.