Thematic Session 6: Mathematical developments in general relativity

The threshold conjecture for extremal black holes in spherical symmetry

Yannis Angelopoulos
Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications
China
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Abstract:
I will present some recents results, obtained jointly with Kehle and Unger, on the stability and instability properties of extremal Reissner-Nordstrom black holrd in the context of the Einstein-Maxwell-neutral scalar field system of equations in spherical symmetry.