Mathematical and Quantum Aspects of Relativity and Cosmology: Proceeding of the Second Samos Meeting on Cosmology, Geometry and Relativity Held at Pythagoreon, Samos, Greece, 31 August–4 September 1998

Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (auth.), Spiros Cotsakis, Gary W. Gibbons (eds.)3540668659, 9783540668657

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 by leading scientists of long standing reputation, should become an indispensable source for future research.

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Table of contents :
Global Wave Maps on Curved Space Times….Pages 1-29
Einstein’s Equations and Equivalent Hyperbolic Dynamical Systems….Pages 30-54
Generalized Bowen-York Initial Data….Pages 55-69
The Reduced Hamiltonian of General Relativity and the σ-Constant of Conformal Geometry….Pages 70-101
Anti-de-Sitter Spacetime and Its Uses….Pages 102-142
Black Holes and Wormholes in 2+1 Dimensions….Pages 143-179
Open Inflation….Pages 180-190
Generating Cosmological Solutions from Known Solutions….Pages 191-213
Multidimensional Cosmological and Spherically Symmetric Solutions with Intersecting p -Branes….Pages 214-247
Open Issues….Pages 249-251