Asymptotic Behavior of Mass and Spacetime Geometry

Proceedings of the Conference Held at the Oregon State University Corvallis, Oregon, USA October 17-21, 1983

228 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Lecture Notes in Physics
• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Physik Klassische Mechanik Gravitation
• ISBN: 9783540133513
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.1984
• Größe: 244 x 170 mm
• Verlag: Springer
• Herausgegeben von: F. J. Flaherty