Introduction to the spacetime causal structure

• Grant number: 19/08402-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2019
• End date: December 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - General Physics
• Principal Investigator: Alberto Vazquez Saa
• Grantee: André Saugo Mazzari
• Host Institution: Instituto de Matemática, Estatística e Computação Científica (IMECC). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/09357-9 - Physics and geometry of spacetime, AP.TEM

Abstract

The project consists in a study of the main aspects of the spacetime causal structures in General Relativity, emphasizing event horizons.