Global Structure and Evolution in General Relativity

Proceedings of the First Samos Meeting on Cosmology, Geometry and Relativity Held at Karlovassi, Samos, Greece, 5-7 September 1994
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-3-662-14072-7
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, Band 460, 173 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 289 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Physics

The five lectures presented in this volume address very timely mathematical problems in relativity and cosmology. Part I is devoted to the initial value and evolution problems of the Einstein equations. Especially it deals with the Einstein-Yang-Mills-Boltzmann system, fluid models with finite or infinite conductivity, global evolution of a new (two-phase) model for gravitational collapse and the structure of maximal, asymptotically flat, vacuum solutions of the constraint equations which have the additional property of containing trapped surfaces. Part II focuses on geometrical-topological problems in relativity and cosmology: on the role of cosmic censorship for the global structure of the Einstein-Maxwell equations and on the mathematical structure of quantum conformal superspace.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gibbons, Gary W.

Cotsakis, Spiros

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Mechanik Gravitation
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astronomische Beobachtung: Observatorien, Instrumente, Methoden
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Geometrie Differentialgeometrie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Geophysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Yang-Mills plasmas.- Relativistic fluids and gravitational collapse.- The einstein vacuum constraints and trapped surfaces.- Black hole collisions, analytic continuation and cosmic censorship.- The structure of quantum conformal superspace.