Mathematical and Quantum Aspects of Relativity and Cosmology: Proceedings of the Second Samos Meeting on Cosmology, Geometry and Relativity Held at Pythagoreon, Samos, Greece, 31 August – 4 September

ISBN-13: 9783540668657 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 254 str.

Spiros Cotsakis;Gary W. Gibbons

Opis

This text reviews recent progress in black-hole and wormhole theory, and in mathematical cosmology within the framework of Einstein's field equations and beyond, including quantum effects.

Spis treści

Global Wave Maps on Curved Space Times.- Einstein’s Equations and Equivalent Hyperbolic Dynamical Systems.- Generalized Bowen-York Initial Data.- The Reduced Hamiltonian of General Relativity and the ?-Constant of Conformal Geometry.- Anti-de-Sitter Spacetime and Its Uses.- Black Holes and Wormholes in 2+1 Dimensions.- Open Inflation.- Generating Cosmological Solutions from Known Solutions.- Multidimensional Cosmological and Spherically Symmetric Solutions with Intersecting p-Branes.- Open Issues.