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Title:
Local existence and uniqueness of static vacuum extensions of Bartnik boundary data

Speaker:
Zhongshan An

Abstract:
The study of static vacuum Riemannian metrics arises naturally in differential geometry and general relativity. It plays an important role in scalar curvature deformation, as well as constructing Einstein spacetimes. Existence of static vacuum Riemannian metrics with prescribed Bartnik data — the induced metric and mean curvature of the boundary — is one of the most fundamental problems in Riemannian geometry related to general relativity. It is also a very interesting problem on the global solvability of a natural geometric boundary value problem. In this talk I will first discuss some basic properties of the nonlinear and linearized static vacuum equations and the geometric boundary conditions. Then I will present some recent progress towards the existence problem of static vacuum metrics based on joint works with Lan-Hsuan Huang.

Link:
http://scgp.stonybrook.edu/video_portal/video.php?id=5341

Workshop:
Simons- Workshop: Recent Advances on Scalar Curvature Problems