Gravitational collapse in anti-de Sitter spacetime
| dc.contributor.author | Cownden, Brad | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Krepski, Derek (Mathematics) Kunstatter, Gabor (Physics and Astronomy) Mann, Robert (University of Waterloo, Physics) Shamseddine, Khodr (Physics and Astronomy) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Frey, Andrew (Physics and Astronomy) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-08T14:49:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-09-08T14:49:43Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2020-08-13 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020 | en_US |
| dc.date.submitted | 2020-08-13T18:50:15Z | en_US |
| dc.degree.discipline | Physics and Astronomy | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The gravitational collapse of a minimally coupled scalar field in (d + 1)-dimensional Anti-de Sitter spacetime is examined via a collection of manuscripts that are, or are in the process of, being published. First, the results of the numerical evolution of the 5-dimensional nonlinear Einstein equations are used to construct a phase diagram of collapse behaviours, taking the mass and width of the initial profile as parameters. Next, we test the limits of a family of perturbative solutions for massless scalars with static boundary conditions in AdS%u2084. Finally, we derive set of flow equations for the time evolution of a massive scalar field in the perturbative description of AdS%u2084 with time-dependent boundary conditions. | en_US |
| dc.description.note | October 2020 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/34974 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | Physics - high energy theory | en_US |
| dc.subject | AdS/CFT | en_US |
| dc.subject | Gravitational collapse | en_US |
| dc.title | Gravitational collapse in anti-de Sitter spacetime | en_US |
| dc.type | doctoral thesis | en_US |