Speaker
Thomas Curtright
Description
I will discuss spherically symmetric solutions of hypothetical scalar field "galileon" models, first in flat space-time, and then in the context of general relativity. For the latter, using numerical methods, I find both censored and naked solutions arising from physically reasonable boundary conditions. Both types of solutions are of comparable non-zero measure in terms of the initial conditions. Censored solutions exhibit event horizons, more or less as expected, while naked solutions have curvature singularities without horizons.
