Mathematical and Quantum Aspects of Relativity and Cosmology Proceedings of the Second Samos Meeting on Cosmology, Geometry and Relativity Held at Pythagoreon, Samos, Greece, 31 August - 4 September 1998 /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Cotsakis, Spiros (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Gibbons, Gary W. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2000.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2000.
• Σειρά: Lecture Notes in Physics, 537
• Θέματα: Gravitation.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy-Observations.; Astrophysics.; Geometry.; Topology.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.

This book is written in a pedagogical style intelligible for graduate students. It reviews recent progress in black-hole and wormhole theory and in mathematical cosmology within the framework of Einstein's field equations and beyond, including quantum effects. This collection of essays, written...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Global Wave Maps on Curved Space Times
• Einstein's Equations and Equivalent Hyperbolic Dynamical Systems
• Generalized Bowen-York Initial Data
• The Reduced Hamiltonian of General Relativity and the ?-Constant of Conformal Geometry
• Anti-de-Sitter Spacetime and Its Uses
• Black Holes and Wormholes in 2+1 Dimensions
• Open Inflation
• Generating Cosmological Solutions from Known Solutions
• Multidimensional Cosmological and Spherically Symmetric Solutions with Intersecting p-Branes
• Open Issues.