The past cosmological horizon as the relevant scri minus

ORAL

Abstract

We consider gravitational radiation produced by isolated sources in spacetimes with positive cosmological constant. A suitable notion of no-incoming radiation can be imposed on the past cosmological horizon of the system by combining ideas from asymptotics and the theory of weakly isolated horizons. We introduce a notion of the total energy and angular momentum of the isolated system. This work also lays the foundations for introducing notions of future infinity where outgoing radiation can be extracted.

*This research is supported in part by the NSF grant PHY-1806356, the grant UN2017-9945 from the Urania Stott Fund of the Pittsburgh Foundation, the Eberly research funds of Penn State.

Presenters

  • Sina Bahrami

    • Pennsylvania State University

Authors

  • Abhay Ashtekar

    • Pennsylvania State University
  • Sina Bahrami

    • Pennsylvania State University