Asymptotic Behavior of Mass and Spacetime Geometry

Proceedings of the Conference Held at the Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon, USA October 17-21, 1983
Herausgegeben:Flaherty, F. J.

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Produktbeschreibung

The positive energy theorem and its extensions.- Mass and angular momentum at the quasi-local level in general relativity.- The positive mass theorem and black holes.- Exotic differentiable structures on Euclidean 4-space.- A new approach to the vacuum Einstein equation.- The existence of maximal surfaces in asymptotically flat spacetimes.- Causality of classical supergravity.- A gauge invariant index theorem for asymptotically flat manifolds.- On the boundary conditions for gravitational and gauge fields at spatial infinity.- Metric fluctuations and the entropy of black holes.- The numerical characteristic initial value problem.- Time-asymmetric initial data for n black holes.- The gravitational Hamiltonian.- Twistors, asymptotic symmetries and conservation laws at null and spatial infinity.- Two-surface twistors and conformal embedding.- Remarks on the cosmic censorship conjecture.- On some (con-)formal properties of Einstein's field equations and their consequences.

Produktdetails

• Lecture Notes in Physics 202
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-540-13351-3
• 1984.
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 1984
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 401g
• ISBN-13: 9783540133513
• ISBN-10: 3540133518
• Artikelnr.: 35979051

Inhaltsangabe

The positive energy theorem and its extensions.- Mass and angular momentum at the quasi-local level in general relativity.- The positive mass theorem and black holes.- Exotic differentiable structures on Euclidean 4-space.- A new approach to the vacuum Einstein equation.- The existence of maximal surfaces in asymptotically flat spacetimes.- Causality of classical supergravity.- A gauge invariant index theorem for asymptotically flat manifolds.- On the boundary conditions for gravitational and gauge fields at spatial infinity.- Metric fluctuations and the entropy of black holes.- The numerical characteristic initial value problem.- Time-asymmetric initial data for n black holes.- The gravitational Hamiltonian.- Twistors, asymptotic symmetries and conservation laws at null and spatial infinity.- Two-surface twistors and conformal embedding.- Remarks on the cosmic censorship conjecture.- On some (con-)formal properties of Einstein's field equations and their consequences.