Mathematical Relativity — 2nd Semester 2021/2022

Lecturer:	José Natário

	Email: jnatar@math.tecnico.ulisboa.pt

	Office: Mathematics Building, 4th floor, room 4.29

Classes:	Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:00 to 11:00.
Office Hours:	Drop by my office or send me an email.

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Examples: Minkowski space-time, Schwarzschild solution, Einstein, de Sitter, anti-de Sitter and Friedman-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker universes; matching and Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse; Penrose diagrams.

Causality: time orientabiliy, chronological and causal past and future, domain of dependence; chronological, stably causal and globally hyperbolic spacetimes.

Singularities: Jacobi equation and conjugate points; energy conditions; existence of maximizing geodesics; Hawking and Penrose singularity theorems.

Cauchy Problem: wave equation; Cauchy problems with constraints; Gauss-Coddazzi relations and 3+1 decomposition of the Einstein equation; Choquet-Bruhat theorem; constraint equations for the initial data.

Positive Mass Theorem: Komar mass; Einstein-Hilbert action; Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulation of the Einstein equations; ADM mass; positive mass theorem; Penrose inequality.

Black Holes: Kerr solution; Killing horizons; surface gravity; Smarr formula; area theorem; black hole thermodynamics.