Conformal Geodesics, A Simple Application

by Ingemar Bengtsson (SU Fysikum)

Monday 10 Mar 2008, 15:30 → 16:30 Europe/Stockholm

A5:1041 (CoPS group room)

Conformal geodesics are an important tool for describing conformal structures in general relativity. They can be understood in an elementary way. I will describe how, and then apply them to prove a curious property of the anti-de Sitter conformal boundary.