Frans Pretorius

Caltech Theoretical Astrophysics and Relativity Group
mail code 130-33
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena CA 91125
USA

Phone: (626) 395 2318
Fax: (626) 796 5675
Email: fransp@tapir.caltech.edu


Recent work

Numerical experiments using harmonic evolution
Scalar field critical phenomena in axisymmetry
The Gregory-Laflamme instability of the 5D black string
AMR for characteristic codes


Earlier publications

The following are links to the gr-qc versions of the papers:

Gravitational collapse in 2+1 dimensional AdS spacetime
Quantum interest for scalar fields in Minkowski spacetime
Quasi-Spherical Light Cones of the Kerr Geometry
An Operational Approach To Black Hole Entropy


Links

older UBC web page



last updated: Nov. 2004