Relativity and Gravitation
100 Years after Einstein in Prague
Editors: Bičák, Jiří, Ledvinka, Tomáš (Eds.)
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In early April 1911 Albert Einstein arrived in Prague to become full professor of theoretical physics at the German part of Charles University. It was there, for the first time, that he concentrated primarily on the problem of gravitation. Before he left Prague in July 1912 he had submitted the paper “Relativität und Gravitation: Erwiderung auf eine Bemerkung von M. Abraham” in which he remarkably anticipated what a future theory of gravity should look like.
At the occasion of the Einstein-in-Prague centenary an international meeting was organized under a title inspired by Einstein's last paper from the Prague period: "Relativity and Gravitation, 100 Years after Einstein in Prague". The main topics of the conference included: classical relativity, numerical relativity, relativistic astrophysics and cosmology, quantum gravity, experimental aspects of gravitation and conceptual and historical issues.
The conference attracted over 200 scientists from 31 countries, among them a number of leading experts in the field of general relativity and its applications. This volume includes abstracts of the plenary talks and full texts of contributed talks and articles based on the posters presented at the conference. These describe primarily original results of the authors. Full texts of the plenary talks are included in the volume "General Relativity, Cosmology and Astrophysics--Perspectives 100 Years after Einstein in Prague", eds. J. Bičák and T. Ledvinka, published also
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“The book is divided into four parts, with talks and posters on classical general relativity, cosmology and relativistic astrophysics, and on quantum fields and quantum gravity. … Leafing through the volume one encounters also here a couple of nice papers with a historical flavour that are well worth reading. … the volume is a pleasant and rewarding experience … .” (CQG+, Classical and Quantum Gravity, cqgplus.com, September, 2015)
“There will probably be many books, both conference proceedings and others, appearing soon … . This volume is one of the first, and sets a high standard. … covers current research in the field, shown to be very much alive, and as such is a good starting point for those wanting to know what is happening in the now very broad field of General Relativity.” (Phillip Helbig, The Observatory, Vol. 134 (1243), December, 2014)
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Exact Hairy Black Holes
Pages 3-10
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Black Hole Formation from a Complete Past for the Einstein–Vlasov System
Pages 11-18
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How to Measure Deviation from the Kerr Initial Data: Recent Progress
Pages 19-24
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Hidden Symmetries of the Dirac Equation in Curved Space-Time
Pages 25-34
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Geometrostatics: The Geometry of Static Space-Times
Pages 35-42
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Relativity and Gravitation
- Book Subtitle
- 100 Years after Einstein in Prague
- Editors
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- Jiří Bičák
- Tomáš Ledvinka
- Series Title
- Springer Proceedings in Physics
- Series Volume
- 157
- Copyright
- 2014
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-06761-2
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-06761-2
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-06760-5
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-38033-9
- Series ISSN
- 0930-8989
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXV, 590
- Number of Illustrations
- 37 b/w illustrations, 77 illustrations in colour
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