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This authoritative volume provides a snapshot of the state of the art in gravitational physics and related mathematical fields, as well as a review of recent achievements and prospects for future work. With contributing authors among the world leaders in their respective fields, this proceedings volume is a worthy addition to this conference series, which constitutes one of the most important international meetings in the areas general relativity and gravitation.

العنوان General relativity and gravitation [electronic resource] : proceedings of the 17th International Conference, RDS Convention Centre, Dublin, 18-23 July 2004 / edited by Petros Florides, Brien Nolan, Andrian Ottewill.
الناشر Singapore
Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific
تاريخ الإصدار c2005
ملاحظات "GR17, Dublin 2004."
Includes bibliographical references.
English
رقم الرف Preface
Organising Committees
Sponsors
Opening Address Her Excellency Mrs M a y McAleese
John Lighton Synge: A Memorial Lecture Petros Florides
Comments on the Death of Peter Bergmann E. T. Newman
CONTENTS
Plenary Lectures
The Status of Numerical Relativity Miguel Alcubierre
1. Introduction
2. The 3+1 decomposition
3. Hyperbolic reductions
4. Constrained evolution
5. Gauge
5.1. Slicing conditions
5.2. Ship conditions
6. Boundaries
7. Initial data
7.1. The thin sandwich formalism
7.2. Binary black holes
8. Horizons
9. Evolving black hole spacetimes
11. Conclusions
AcknowledgmentsReferences
Loop Quantum Gravity, Quantum Geometry and Spin Foams John Baez
Towards Detection of Gravitational Waves Barry C. Barish
2. Resonant Bar Detectors
3. Suspended Mass Interferometers
4. Initial Performance
5. Astrophysical Signals from Spinning Neutron. Stars in our Galaxy
References
Advances in Relativistic Astrophysics Lars Bildsten
Recent Results in Mathematical Relativity Piotr T. Chrus'ciel
2. Quasi-local mass
3. Strong cosmic censorship
4. Stability of Minkowski space-time
5. Initial data engineering
6. Asymptotic structure7. Low regularity solutions
8. Vacuum initial data set with apparent horizons and trapped surfaces
Acknowledgements
Black Holes and The Information Paradox Stephen Hawking
Gravitation and Cosmology in Brane-worlds David Langlois
2. Gravity in brane-worlds
2.1. The Randall-Sundrum model
2.2. Gravity in the Randall-Sundrum model
2.3. Two-brane models
3. Homogeneous brane cosmology
3.1. The model
3.2. The cosmological evolution in the brane
3.3. Another point of view
4. Dark radiation
4.1. Emission and propagation of bulk gravitons4.2. Observational constraints
5. Brane inflation
6. Beyond homogeneous brane cosmology
6.1. Anisotropic brane cosmology
6.2. Scalar cosmological perturbations
7. Conclusions
A Few Words on Entropy, Thermodynamics, and Horizons Donald Marolf
2. Thermodynamics can hold its own
2.1. General Comments
2.2. The Bekenstein bound
2.3. The holographic bound
3. The Observer Dependence of Entropy
3.1. An explicit example: Free Bosons
4. Discussion
Acknowledgments
Advanced Gravitational-Wave Detector Technologies: Future Generations of Interferometers Nergis MavalvalaProbing General Relativity on the Scales of Cosmology P. J. E. Peebles
2. The Standard Cosmology
3. The Mean Mass Density
3.1. Mass Estimates
3.2. Systematic Errors
4. The Cosmological Constant
5. Testing Gravity Physics on the Scales of Cosmology
Relativity and Astrophysics with LISA Sterl Phinney
The Gravitationai Self-force Eric Poisson
1. Introduction: The Capra scientific mandate
2. Astrophysical context
3. Motion of a black hole
الشكل 1 online resource (379 p.)
اللغة الانكليزية
رقم النظام 997010711090705171
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