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Theory Group
Theory Group Qualifier, 23 November 2015


Mr. Stefan Eccles, UT-Austin

Shock Waves and de Sitter Entropy

abstract

Various relationships between quantities in general relativity have been shown to obey thermodynamic laws in a way that is not entirely understood. Entropy has been associated with horizons in multiple contexts (specifically black hole horizons and cosmological event horizons). I will talk about our current efforts to substantiate a conjecture that shockwave solutions to Einstein's equations may also have an associated entropy.



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