Directions in General Relativity: Volume 1
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Directions in General Relativity: Volume 1

Proceedings of the 1993 International Symposium, Maryland: Papers in Honor of Charles Misner

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Directions in General Relativity: Volume 1

Proceedings of the 1993 International Symposium, Maryland: Papers in Honor of Charles Misner

About this book

These two volumes are the proceedings of a major International Symposium on General Relativity held at the University of Maryland 27 to 29 March 1993 to celebrate the sixtieth birthdays of Professor Charles Misner and Professor Dieter Brill. The volumes cover classical general relativity, quantum gravity and quantum cosmology, canonical formulation and the initial value problem, topology and geometry of spacetime and fields, mathematical and physical cosmology, and Black Hole physics and astrophysics. As invited articles, the papers in these volumes have an aim which goes beyond that of a standard conference proceedings. Not only do the authors discuss the most recent research results in their fields, but many also provide historical perspectives on how their subjects developed and offer individual insights in their search for new directions.

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Table of contents

  1. Half-title
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Contributors
  6. Symposium Program
  7. Papers from Both Volumes Classified by Subject
  8. Preface
  9. Charles W.Misner: Insight and Discovery
  10. Remarks Concerning the Geometries of Gravity and Gauge Fields
  11. Gravity and Unification of Fundamental Interactions
  12. Minisuperspaces: Symmetries and Quantization
  13. Quantum Cosmology
  14. A Pictorial History of some Gravitational Instantons*
  15. No Time Machines from Lightlike Sources in 2+1 Gravity
  16. Inhomogeneity and Anisotropy Generation in FRW Cosmologies
  17. Misner, Kinks, and Black Holes
  18. The Quantum Mechanics of Closed Systems
  19. Cosmological Vacuum Phase Transitions
  20. Minisuperspace as a Quantum Open System
  21. Ricci Flow on Minisuperspaces and the Geometry-Topology Problem
  22. Classical and Quantum Dynamics of Black Hole Interiors
  23. Matter Time in Canonical Quantum Gravity
  24. The Isotropy and Homogeneity of the Universe
  25. Recent Advances in ADM Reduction
  26. Some Progress in Classical Canonical Gravity
  27. Harmonic Map Formulation of Colliding Electrovac Plane Waves
  28. Geometry, the Renormalization Group and Gravity
  29. An Example of Indeterminacy in theTime-development of "Already Unified Field Theory": A Collision between Electromagnetic Plane Waves
  30. Non-static Metrics of Hiscock-Gott Type
  31. Non-Standard Phase Space Variables, Quantization, and Path Integrals, or Little Ado about Much
  32. The Present Status of the Decaying Neutrino Theory
  33. Exploiting the Computer to Investigate Black Holes and Cosmic Censorship
  34. Misner Space as a Prototype for Almost Any Pathology
  35. Relativity and Rotation
  36. The First Law of Black Hole Mechanics
  37. Gravitational Radiation Antenna Observations
  38. The Back-Reaction Is Never Negligible: Entropy of Black Holes and Radiation
  39. Toward a Thesis Topic
  40. Charles Misner: A Celebration of Memories
  41. Curriculum Vitae
  42. Physics Ph.D. Theses
  43. List of Publications