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Record Nr.

UNINA9910257396903321

Titolo

Global Structure and Evolution in General Relativity [[electronic resource] ] : Proceedings of the First Samos Meeting on Cosmology, Geometry and Relativity Held at Karlovassi, Samos, Greece, 5–7 September 1994 / / edited by Spiros Cotsakis, Gary W. Gibbons

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1996

ISBN

3-540-49361-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 1996.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 173 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 460

Disciplina

530.1/1

Soggetti

Gravitation

Mathematical physics

Differential geometry

Observations, Astronomical

Astronomy—Observations

Astrophysics

Geophysics

Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory

Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

Differential Geometry

Astronomy, Observations and Techniques

Astrophysics and Astroparticles

Geophysics/Geodesy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.