Recent content by Suzanne Rosenzweig

Background of problem comes from Drude model of a metal (not necessary to answer my problem but for the curious): Consider a uniform, time-dependent electric field acting on a metal. It can be shown that the conductivity is $$\sigma = \frac{\sigma_0}{1-i\omega t}$$ where $$\sigma_0 =...

Thank you for sharing! Yes, I have access to quite a few technical resources. Unfortunately, they tend to assume a substantial amount of prior knowledge and so basic questions are difficult to answer, at times.

Thank you very much for your response! Yes, ideally I will discuss Schwarzschild and Kerr solutions to Einstein's equations, citing works by Regge and Wheeler, Vishveshwara, Zerilli, Wald and Kay, etc. Also, I greatly appreciate your sharing a resource. I will look into the rigidity conjecture...

I am working on a presentation for a course in general relativity and my topic is the stability of black holes. In many of the references and articles that I have found, the author asserts the importance of the conjecture but offers no reason. So I ask: Why is the black hole stability conjecture...