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The renaissance of general relativity and cosmology : a survey to celebrate the 65th birthday of Dennis Sciama

Title
The renaissance of general relativity and cosmology : a survey to celebrate the 65th birthday of Dennis Sciama / [edited by] George Ellis, Antonio Lanza, John Miller.
Publication
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

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Additional Authors
  • Sciama, D. W. (Dennis William), 1926-
  • Ellis, George F. R. (George Francis Rayner)
  • Lanza, Antonio.
  • Miller, John.
Description
x, 332 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
  • 1. Introduction -- 2. Exact and inexact solutions of the Einstein field equations / G. F. R. Ellis -- 3. Inertial forces in general relativity / M. A. Abramowicz -- 4. Relativistic radiation hydrodynamics: a covariant theory of flux-limiters / A. M. Anile and V. Romano -- 5. Relativistic gravitational collapse / J. C. Miller -- 6. The cosmic censorship hypothesis / C. J. S. Clarke -- 7. The Kerr metric: a gateway to the roots of gravity? / F. de Felice -- 8. Galactic astronomy since 1950 / J. J. Binney -- 9. Galaxy distribution functions / W. C. Saslaw -- 10. Nonlinear galaxy clustering / B. J. T. Jones -- 11. Quasars: progress and prospects / M. J. Rees -- 12. Decaying neutrinos in astronomy and cosmology / D. W. Sciama -- 13. Cosmological principles / J. D. Barrow -- 14. Anisotropic and inhomogeneous cosmologies / M. A. H. MacCullum -- 15. Mach's principle and isotropic singularities / K. P. Tod -- 16. Implications of superconductivity in cosmic string theory / B. Carter.
  • 17. The formation and evaporation of primordial black holes / B. J. Carr -- 18. Evaporation of two dimensional black holes / S. W. Hawking -- 19. Topology and topology change in general relativity / G. W. Gibbons -- 20. Decoherence of the cluttered quantum vacuum / D. J. Raine -- 21. Quantum non-locality and complex reality / R. Penrose -- 22. The different levels of connections between science and objective reality / N. Dallaporta.
ISBN
0521433770 :
LCCN
gb 93066805
OCLC
  • 32052043
  • ocm32052043
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries