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Conference on Mathematical Relativity / Robert Bartnik, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Proceedings of the Centre for Mathematics and Its Applications, Australian National University ; Volume 19.
- Proceedings of the Centre for Mathematics and its Applications ; 19
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematical physics--Congresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (260 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Caberra : Australian National University, 1989.
- Summary:
- The Canberra Conference on Mathematical Relativity was the highlight of a special program at the CMA which ran from June - August 1988. With over 40 people taking part and 27 talks packed into three days, the conference was a very stimulating and exhausting experience for all concerned.
- Contents:
- Axisymmetric asymptotically flat radiative spacetimes with another symmetry: the general definition and comments
- On the energy of the gravitational field
- On radiative space-times
- Gravitation with Gauss Bonnet terms
- Momenta and reduction for general relativity II: the level sets
- The shape of infinity
- Space-time splitting theorems
- Regularity of spacelike hypersurfaces
- Describing spacetimes by their curvature
- The Yamabe theorem and general relativity
- The reduction problem for Einstein's equations
- A survey of the Weyl metrics
- A general theorem on gravitational metrics in prolate spheroidal coordinates
- Kerr-Schild spacetimes revisited
- Unitary spinor methods in general relativity
- Inhomogeneities in a Friedman universe
- New Kaluza-Klein theory
- The motion of membranes in space-time
- Some open problems in mathematical relativity.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
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