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CATEGORIES:Mathematical Physics Seminar
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SUMMARY:Webinar: Robert McCann - Trading linearity for ellipticity: a low regularity Lorentzian splitting theorem
LOCATION:Zoom
DESCRIPTION:<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Robert McCann – University of Toront
 o&nbsp;</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Wednesday,&nbsp;
 June 24,&nbsp;2026</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Zoom 
 opens: 10:30AM EDT</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Semin
 ar begins: 10:45AM EDT</strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>T
 rading linearity for ellipticity: a low regularity Lorentzian splitting the
 orem</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>While Einstein's theory of gravity is form
 ulated in a smooth setting, the celebrated singularity theorems of Hawking 
 and Penrose describe many physical situations in which this smoothness must
  eventually breakdown. It is thus of great interest to study the theory in 
 low regularity settings. In the lecture, we establish a low regularity spli
 tting theorem by sacrificing linearity of the d'Alembertian to recover elli
 pticity. We exploit a negative homogeneity $p$-d'Alembert operator for this
  purpose. The same technique yields a simplified proof of Eschenberg (1988)
  Galloway (1989) and Newman's (1990) confirmation of Yau's (1982) conjectur
 e, bringing all three Lorentzian splitting results into a framework closer 
 to the Cheeger-Gromoll splitting theorem from Riemannian geometry. Based on
  joint work with Mathias Braun, Nicola Gigli, Argam Ohanyan, and Clemens Sa
 emann: 1) arXiv 2501.00702 2) arXiv 2408.15968 3) arXiv 2410.12632 4) arXiv
  2507.06836</p>
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