Gravitation and Astrophysics: 90th Year of General Relativity

James M. Nester, Chiang-Mei Chen, Jong-Ping Hsu9812569502, 9789812569509, 9789812772923

The ICGA series of conferences is specially aimed to serve the needs of the workers in this research area in the Asia-Pacific region. The previous conferences of this series have attracted a growing number of local, regional and international participants. 2005 was an auspicious year. Not only was it the International Year of Physics, commemorating Einstein’s great achievements of 1905, it also was the anniversary of Einstein’s development of General Relativity: he submitted the final form of his field equations on 25 November, 1915. Nine decades years later, around 40 Taiwan-based participants were joined by over 40 distinguished visitors from Canada, China, France, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the USA, and this volume includes many of the papers that were presented. The depth and breadth of these contributions reflect the high quality of the meeting and the development of the field in the Asia-Pacific region.

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Table of contents :
CONTENTS……Page 8
Preface……Page 6
Experimental Tests of Gravity……Page 12
Progress in Testing Newtonian Inverse Square Law……Page 14
Null Test of the Inverse-Square Law at 100-Micrometer Distance……Page 20
Numerical Relativity……Page 32
A New Generalized Harmonic Evolution System……Page 34
Numerical Relativity Beyond I +……Page 42
Improved Numerical Stability of Rotating Black Hole Evolution Calculations……Page 56
Cosmology……Page 62
Integrable Cosmological Models in DD and Variations of Fundamental Constants……Page 64
Coupled Quintessence and CMB……Page 80
Cosmic Lee-Yang Force Dark Energy and Accelerated Wu-Doppler Effect……Page 90
Accelerating Expansion from Inhomogeneities?……Page 98
Thermalization in the Inflationary Universe……Page 105
Dark Energy and Wormhole……Page 113
Cosmic Bose Einstein Condensation – Induced Inflation and Early Formation of Black Holes……Page 122
Gravitational Lensing in TeVe S……Page 131
An Issue to The Cosmological Constant Problem……Page 136
Astrophysics……Page 146
Black Hole Mass Determination for Blazars……Page 148
Black Holes as the Central Engines for Astrophysical Sources……Page 153
The Third Cloud Over General Relativity-Anomalous Acceleration of Pioneer 10 and 11 and its Possible Explanation……Page 158
General Formula for Comparison of Clock Rates -Applications to Cosmos and Solar System……Page 165
Searching for Sub-Millisecond Pulsars: A Theoretical View……Page 170
Quantum Gravity……Page 180
Low-Energy Quantum Gravity……Page 182
Mass Renormalization at Finite Temperature and Random Motion of an Electron Driven by Quantum Electromagnetic Fluctuations……Page 188
Quantum Gravity Phenomenology and Black Hole Physics……Page 194
Uniformly Accelerated Detector in (3+1)D Spacetime: From Vacuum Fluctuations to Radiation Flux……Page 202
Signatures of Spacetime Geometry Fluctuations……Page 209
Dyadospheres Don’t Develop……Page 217
The Quantized Schwarzschild Black Hole and the Possible Origin of Dark Matter……Page 227
The Origin of the Immirzi Parameter in Loop Quantum Gravity……Page 232
Quantum Entanglement in Non-Inertial Frames……Page 237
Black Hole Fluctuations and Dynamics from Back-Reaction of Hawking Radiation: Current Work and Further Studies Based on Stochastic Gravity……Page 247
Classical Gravity……Page 262
Growth of Primordial Black Holes……Page 264
De Sitter Invariant Special Relativity……Page 271
Scalar Field Contribution to Rotating Black Hole Entropy – Semiclassical Method……Page 280
Further Simplification of the Constraints of Four-Dimensional Gravity……Page 289
Evaporation of Bardeen Black Holes……Page 295
On Non-Uniform Charged Black Branes……Page 303
Quasi-local Mass and the Final Fate of Gravitational Collapse in Gauss-Bonnet Gravity……Page 311
Gyraton Solutions in Einstein-Maxwell Theory and Supergravity……Page 319
Stationary Spacetime with Intersecting Branes in M/ Superstring Theory……Page 329
Wave Maps on Black Holes in any Dimensions……Page 342
Geometric Characterization of Purely In- or Out-Going Gravitational Radiation at a Finite Distance……Page 347
Radiation Reaction in Curved Space-Time: Local Method……Page 357
Classical Pseudotenors and Positivity in Small Regions……Page 367
A Brief Review of Initial Data Engineering……Page 374
Abelian Decomposition of Einstein’s Theory: Reformulation of General Relativity……Page 384
Quasi-Local Energy Flux……Page 400
The Hamiltonian Boundary Term……Page 407
Dynamical Untrapped Hypersurfaces……Page 414
International Organizing Committee……Page 420
Local Organizing Committee……Page 421
List of Speakers……Page 422
List of Participants……Page 424
Photos: Group Photo Moments Between the Sessions……Page 427