Mathematics and general relativity : proceedings of the AMS-IMS-SIAM joint summer research conference held June 22-28, 1986 with support from the National Science Foundation / / James A. Isenberg, editor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910480873203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [1988]; ©1988
• ISBN: 0-8218-7660-0; 0-8218-5079-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (386 p.)
• Collana: Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; volume 71
• Disciplina: 530.1/1
• Soggetti: General relativity (Physics) - Mathematics; Mathematical physics; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographies.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Aspects of Quasi-Local Angular Momentum""; ""Some Remarks on the Quasi-Local Mass""; ""Quasi-Local Mass for ""Large"" Spheres""; ""Conserved Quantities as Action Variations""; ""A 3+1 Formulation of Einstein Self-Duality""; ""Quantum Gravity in the Self-Dual Representation""; ""Superspace in the Self-Dual Representation of Quantum Gravity""; ""Self-Dual and Anti-Self-Dual Hermitian Metrics on Compact Complex Surfaces""; ""Instantons on the Quaternionic Siegel Space""; ""Gauge Theories for Fields of Spin-One and Spin-Two""; ""Einstein Geometry and Hyperbolic Equations""""The Well-Posedness of Rosen's Field Equations""; ""Dynamics of Quadratic Lagrangians in Gravity: Fairchild's Theory""; ""Stability in Dissipative Relativistic Fluid Theories""; ""The Hamiltonian Formulation of Classical Field Theory""; ""The Ricci Flow on Surfaces""; ""Curvature and Compact Spacelike Surfaces in 4-Dimensional Spacetimes""; ""Spacetime Singularities from High Matter Densities (Abstract)""; ""Metric Singularity Phenomena in Pseudo-Riemannian Geometry""; ""Covariant Quantization of Dynamical Systems with Constraints""; ""Problems on Diffeomorphism Arising from Quantum Gravity""""Initial Value Decomposition of the Spacetime Diffeomorphism Group""; ""Inclusion of Fermions in the Wave Function of the Universe""; ""Gauge Symmetries of String Field Theory (Abstract)""; ""Twistors and Strings""; ""List of Participants""