From Coulomb to Kerr via the double copy - Donal O'Connell

PIRSA ID: 21100022
Series: Colloquium
Event Type: Seminar
Scientific Area(s):
Other
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Speaker(s):
  • Donal O&#039
  • Connell, University of Edinburgh

The double copy relates scattering amplitudes in gauge theory and gravity. But interaction potentials (and spacetime metrics) can be extracted from amplitudes, and so the double copy leads to a relationship between classical solutions of gauge theory and gravity. In this talk I will describe this relationship, provide a perspective on the Schwarzschild metric as a “square” of the Coulomb charge, and take a look at the “square root” of the Kerr metric.