Juan A. Valiente Kroon (Queen Mary University of London)

Conformal Methods in General Relativity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a systematic exposition of conformal methods and how they can be used to study the global properties of solutions to the equations of Einstein's theory of gravity. This title, first published in 2016, has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Revised ed
• Seitenzahl: 622
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1062g
• ISBN-13: 9781009291330
• ISBN-10: 1009291335
• Artikelnr.: 66278217

Inhaltsangabe

List of symbols
Preface
1. Introduction
Part I. Geometric Tools: 2. Differential geometry
3. Spacetime spinors
4. Space spinors
5. Conformal geometry
Part II. General Relativity and Conformal Geometry: 6. Conformal extensions of exact solutions
7. Asymptotic simplicity
8. The conformal Einstein field equations
9. Matter models
10. Asymptotics
Part III. Methods of PDE Theory: 11. The conformal constraint equations
12. Methods of the theory of hyperbolic differential equations
13. Hyperbolic reductions
14. Causality and the Cauchy problem in General Relativity
Part IV. Applications: 15. De Sitter-like spacetimes
16. Minkowski-like spacetimes
17. Anti-de Sitter-like spacetimes
18. Characteristic problems for the conformal field equations
19. Static solutions
20. Spatial infinity
21. Perspectives
References
Index.