Numerical Construction of Gravitational Solutions in Asymptotically Anti-de Sitter Spacetimes
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Asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetimes display intriguing phenomena which have recently sparked increasing interest in the research of gravitational solutions in these spaces. Considerable motivation stems from gauge/gravity duality, which is a conjecture relating classical gravity with a negative cosmological constant to strongly coupled quantum field theories. In this dissertation, we present novel stationary, asymptotically AdS black hole and soliton solutions, which we construct numerically. We employ numerical techniques which have been successfully used to tackle the complexities of the Einstein equations, and allow us to study the fully non-linear systems in unparalleled detail. We present a numerical study of rotating and charged hairy black hole solutions in five-dimensional AdS, which originate from a consistent truncation of