PSI 2016/2017 - Gravitational Physics (Gregory)

Experimental tests of GR: cosmology, black holes, gravitational waves, and quantum gravity effects

Gravitational Instantons: tunnelling and bubbles

Dynamical Gregory-Laflamme instability of black strings, Randall-Sundrum model

Kaluza-Klein black holes, KK monopole, Gregory-Laflamme instability: TD argument

Kaluza-Klein theory

Branes: domain walls, p-branes

Accelerated black holes: C metric & cosmic strings

Black hole thermodynamics: Euclidean calculation, Kerr BH mechanics, (A)dS BHs and PdV term

Gauss-Codazzi formalism and Gibbons-Hawking term

Variational principles: scalar field, Einstein-Hilbert action, Euclidean Schwarzschild geometry

Black holes: Carter-Penrose diagrams, Kerr solution, geodesics, ISCOs and accretion discs

Application of Cartan's formalism to spherically symmetric spacetimes