4 oct 2016 -- 14:30
Aula Dal Passo, Dip.Matematica, Università "Tor Vergata", Roma
Abstract.
After a broad contextualisation, I will describe the recent construction (joint with Richard Schoen) of a new class of solutions to the Einstein constraint equations that exhibit highly anomalous properties both at a geometric and at a physical level. In the purely Riemannian setting our methods produce asymptotically flat manifolds that have positive ADM mass but are exactly flat outside a cone of arbitrarily small, pre-assigned opening angle. In particular, using basic facts about Huisken's isoperimetric mass one can see that these data contain arbitrarily large stable CMC spheres that are not isoperimetric for they volume they enclose. Furthermore, the gluing scheme that we develop allows to produce novel classes of N-body solutions for the Einstein equation, which patently exhibit the phenomenon of gravitational shielding: for any large T we can engineer solutions where any two massive bodies do not interact at all for any time up to T, in striking contrast with the Newtonian gravity scenario.