250133 VO Lorentzian Geometry (2023S)
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Details
Language: English
Examination dates
Monday
17.07.2023
Friday
22.09.2023
Friday
29.09.2023
Tuesday
03.10.2023
Tuesday
14.11.2023
Monday
11.12.2023
Monday
22.01.2024
Monday
11.03.2024
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Wednesday
01.03.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
02.03.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
08.03.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
09.03.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
15.03.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
16.03.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
22.03.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
23.03.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
29.03.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
30.03.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
19.04.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
20.04.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
26.04.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
27.04.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
03.05.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
04.05.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
10.05.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
11.05.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
17.05.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
24.05.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
25.05.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
31.05.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
01.06.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
07.06.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
14.06.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
15.06.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
21.06.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
22.06.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Wednesday
28.06.
13:15 - 14:45
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Thursday
29.06.
09:45 - 11:15
Seminarraum 11 Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1 2.Stock
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Oral exam by personal appointment.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
For a successful exam, a thorough understanding of the definitions, results, and proofs has to be shown in detailed answers to questions.
Examination topics
Content of the lecture notes.
Reading list
Barrett O'Neill, Semi-Riemannnian Geometry (With Applications to Relativity) (Volume 103 of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Academic Press, San Diego, 1983), chapters 10 and 14.
Christian Bär, Lorentzian geometry: https://www.math.uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Prof-Geometrie/Dokumente/Lehre/Veranstaltungen/WS0405-SS08/LorentzianGeometryEnglish13Jan2020.pdf
Christian Bär, Lorentzian geometry: https://www.math.uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Prof-Geometrie/Dokumente/Lehre/Veranstaltungen/WS0405-SS08/LorentzianGeometryEnglish13Jan2020.pdf
Association in the course directory
MGEV
Last modified: Mo 11.03.2024 09:46
Basic examples of spacetimes (Minkowski, (anti-)de Sitter, and Robertson-Walker spaces, Schwarzschild half-plane)
Basic causality theory (local causality, causality conditions)
Calculus of variations (Jacobi fields, focal and conjugate points)
Global hyperbolicity (Cauchy hypersurfaces, developments, and horizons)
The singularity theorms of Penrose and Hawking
The stucture of globally hyperbolic spacetimes