Filipe Mena (Universidade do Minho)

Spacetime junctions and black hole formation

We will overview the theory of spacetime junctions in General Relativity and some applications to the study of black hole formation. In particular, we shall present a recent work about the existence and stability of spacetimes involved in the gravitational collapse to topological black holes in higher dimensions. This is a joint work with  Natario, Tod, Ann. H. Poincaré.