The Gregory-Laflamme instability of black strings revisited

09/15/2022 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Daniel Kapek Jue Liu Puskar Mondal
CMSA Room G10
Address: CMSA, 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
General Relativity Seminar
Title: The Gregory-Laflamme instability of black strings revisited
 
Abstract: In this talk I will discuss our recent work that reproduces and extends the famous work of Lehner and Pretorius on the end point of the Gregory-Laflamme instability of black strings. We consider black strings of different thicknesses and our numerics allow us to get closer to the singularity than ever before. In particular, while our results support the picture of the formation of a naked singularity in finite asymptotic time, the process is more complex than previously thought. In addition, we obtain some hints about the nature of the singularity that controls the pinch off of the string.