The five lectures presented in this volume address very timely mathematical problems in relativity and cosmology. Part I is devoted to the initial value and evolution problems of the Einstein equations. Especially it deals with the Einstein-Yang-Mills-Boltzmann system, fluid models with finite or infinite conductivity, global evolution of a new (two-phase) model for gravitational collapse and the structure of maximal, asymptotically flat, vacuum solutions of the constraint equations which have the additional property of containing trapped surfaces. Part II focuses on geometrical-topological problems in relativity and cosmology: on the role of cosmic censorship for the global structure of the Einstein-Maxwell equations and on the mathematical structure of quantum conformal superspace.
| ISBN: | 9783540607519 |
| Publication date: | 7th February 1996 |
| Author: | Spiros Cotsakis, Gary W Gibbons |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 173 pages |
| Series: | Lecture Notes in Physics |
| Genres: |
Gravity Mathematical physics Differential and Riemannian geometry Astronomy, space and time Astrophysics Geophysics Geometry Topology Maths for scientists Cosmology and the universe Relativity physics Maths for engineers |