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Analytical and Numerical Approaches to Mathematical Relativity

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Editors:
  1. Jörg Frauendiener

    1. Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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  2. Domenico J.W. Giulini

    1. Fakultät für Physik und Mathematik, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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  3. Volker Perlick

    1. Institut für Theoretische Physik, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 692)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  2. Differential Geometry and Differential Topology

    1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XVII
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    2. A Personal Perspective on Global Lorentzian Geometry

      • Paul E. Ehrlich
      Pages 3-34

    3. The Space of Null Geodesics (and a New Causal Boundary)

      • Robert J. Low
      Pages 35-50

    4. Some Variational Problems in Semi-Riemannian Geometry

      • Antonio Masiello
      Pages 51-77

    5. On the Geometry of pp-Wave Type Spacetimes

      • José L. Flores, Miguel Sánchez
      Pages 79-98

  3. Analytical Methods and Differential Equations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XVII
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    2. Concepts of Hyperbolicity and Relativistic Continuum Mechanics

      • Robert Beig
      Pages 101-116

    3. Elliptic Systems

      • Sergio Dain
      Pages 117-139

    4. Mathematical Properties of Cosmological Models with Accelerated Expansion

      • Alan D. Rendall
      Pages 141-155

    5. The Poincaré Structure and the Centre-of-Mass of Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes

      • László B. Szabados
      Pages 157-184

  4. Numerical Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages I-XVII
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    2. Computer Simulation – a Tool for Mathematical Relativity – and Vice Versa

      • Beverly K. Berger
      Pages 187-203

    3. On Boundary Conditions for the Einstein Equations

      • Simonetta Frittelli, Roberto Gómez
      Pages 205-222

    4. Recent Analytical and Numerical Techniques Applied to the Einstein Equations

      • Dave Neilsen, Luis Lehner, Olivier Sarbach, Manuel Tiglio
      Pages 223-249

    5. Some Mathematical Problems in Numerical Relativity

      • Maria Babiuc, Béla Szilágyi, Jeffrey Winicour
      Pages 251-274

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 275-279
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About this book

The general theory of relativity, as formulated by Albert Einstein in 1915, provided an astoundingly original perspective on the physical nature of gr- itation, showing that it could be understood as a feature of a curvature in the four-dimensional continuum of space-time. Now, some 90 years later, this extraordinary theory stands in superb agreement with observation, prov- ing a profound accord between the theory and the actual physical behavior of astronomical bodies, which sometimes attains a phenomenal precision (in one case to about one part in one hundred million million, where several d- ferent non-Newtonian e?ects, including the emission of gravitational waves, are convincingly con?rmed). Einstein’s tentative introduction, in 1917, of an additional term in his equations, speci?ed by a “cosmological constant”, - pearsnowtobeobservationallydemanded,andwiththistermincluded,there is no discrepancy known between Einstein’s theory and classical dynamical behavior, from meteors to matter distributions at the largest cosmological scales. One of Einstein’s famous theoretical predictions that light is bent in a gravitational ?eld (which had been only roughly con?rmed by Eddington’s solareclipsemeasurementsattheIslandofPrincipein1919,butwhichisnow very well established) has become an important tool in observational cosm- ogy, where gravitational lensing now provides a unique and direct means of measuring the mass of very distant objects.

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"The 319th Wilhelm-and-Else-Heraeus Seminar ‘Mathematical Relativity: New Ideas and Developments’ took place in March 2004. Twelve of the invited speakers have expanded their one hour talks into the papers appearing in this volume … . volume contains a wealth of diverse, fascinating material which needs to be perused by research students and others new to this field. Many will wish to buy it, but even if you do not, make sure your institution’s library purchases a copy!" (John M Stewart, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Issue 24, 2007)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Theoretische Astrophysik, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Jörg Frauendiener

  • Fakultät für Physik und Mathematik, Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Domenico J.W. Giulini

  • Institut für Theoretische Physik, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Volker Perlick

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