Inverse square potentials and applications to general relativity
Time
Nov 3 2009 - 2:30pm - 3:20 pmLocation
MW154Speaker
Wilhelm Schlag (University of Chicago)Abstract
We will discuss recent work on the problem of proving pointwise decay in
time for wave evolutions on curved backgrounds, such as the linear wave
equation on the background of a Schwarzschild black hole. By means of a foliation
into solutions of fixed angular momenta, we reduce the problem to the question of decay for one-dimensional wave
equations with a potential which exhibits inverse square decay on at least one side.
Last updated by Rodica Costin on 10/30/09
