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The Sixth Canadian Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics
About this Title
S. Braham, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, Jack D. Gegenberg, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada and Robert J. McKellar, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada, Editors
Publication: Fields Institute Communications
Publication Year:
1997; Volume 15
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-0523-7 (print); 978-1-4704-2983-6 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/fic/015
MathSciNet review: MR1463188
MSC: Primary 83-06
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Chapters
- C. Burgess, R. Myers and F Quevedo – Four dimensional black holes and duality in superstring theory
- A Coley – Self-similarity and cosmology
- J Friedman – Field theory on spacetimes that are not globally hyperbolic
- J Isenberg – Solving the Einstein constraint equations
- Werner Israel – Covariant double-null dynamics and the internal geometry of aspherical black holes
- D Louis-Martinez and G Kunstatter – Charged black holes in generic 2-D dilaton gravity
- E Poisson – Gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries
- Jorge Pullin – Colliding black holes with linearized gravity
- C Torre – Spinors, jets, and the Einstein equations
- R Wald – The laws of black hole mechanics in an arbitrary Lagrangian theory of gravity
- M West – Black holes, galaxy formation and the large-scale structure of the universe
- Peter Anninos, D Hobill, Edward Seidel, Larry Smarr and Wai-Mo Suen – When black holes collide
- Patricia Benoit and A Coley – A new class of spherically symmetric perfect fluid solutions with kinematic self-similarity
- A Billyard and P Wesson – A wave-like solution in Kaluza-Klein theory
- Anthony Bonanno – Mass inflation in a rotating charged hole
- S Braham – Quantum black holes and hypertime
- J Carot and J Dacosta – Symmetries of matter distributions
- A Chamblin – Topology and causal structure
- K Chan – Charged dilaton black holes with unusual asymptotics
- K Chu, C Farell, Greg Fee and R McLenaghan – General relativity calculations in Maple
- A Coley – Vacuum solutions of Gauss-Bonnet theory and induced cosmological models
- J Creighton and R Mann – Quasilocal formalism for dilaton gravity with Yang-Mills fields
- B Darian and Hans Kunzle – Einstein-Yang-Mills cosmology with Taub-Type symmetry
- G Davies – Using the Schrödinger equation for astrophysical and cosmological simulations
- J Demers – Decoherence of the Unruh detector
- J Demers, R Lafrance and R Myers – Black hole entropy and renormalization
- Kenneth Dunn, Tina Harriott and J Williams – Matching conditions for the 1+1 de Sitter kinked spacetime
- V Faraoni, F Cooperstock and J Overduin – COBE Constraints on Kaluza-Klein cosmologies
- A Feinstein, J Ibanez and R Lazkoz – Cosmologies with two-dimensional inhomogeneity
- Stephen Goode and Scott Bullock – Stiff matter $G_{2}$ cosmologies
- G Hall – Projective symmetry in space-times
- D Kalligas and P Wesson – Light repulsion in higher-dimensional relativity
- N Kaloper – A no-go theorem in string cosmology
- M Kavian, R McLenaghan and Keith Geddes – MapleTensor: A new system for performing indicial and component tensor calculations by computer
- R Khuri and R Myers – Low-energy scattering of extreme black holes in string theory
- E Martinez – Entropy of eternal black holes
- R McLenaghan and Fernando Sasse – Nonexistence of Petrov type III space-times on which Weyl’s neutrino equation and Maxwell’s equations satisfy Huygens’ principle
- R McLenaghan and D Walker – Symmetry operators for the Weyl neutrino equation on curved spacetime
- G Michaud and R Myers – Two-dimensional dilaton black holes
- J Mureika and R Mann – Gravitationally-induced three-flavor neutrino oscillations as a possible solution to the solar neutrino problem
- P Musgrave and K Lake – Differential invariants and regularity
- P Musgrave, D Pollney and K Lake – GRTensorII: A computer algebra system for general relativity
- G Perry and F Cooperstock – Exact solution for two charged spherically symmetric sources in equilibrium
- J Ponce de Leon and P Wesson – The equation of motion in higher-dimensional gravity
- D Salopek – The nature of cosmic time
- Kristin Schleich and Donald Witt – Numerical quantum gravity by dynamical triangulation
- Brian Tupper – Conformal motions in spherical and plane symmetric spacetimes
- Robert Van Den Hoogen – Dissipative cosmology
- J Williams and P Zvengrowski – Counting kinks in 1+1 dimensions
- Donald Witt and Kristin Schleich – Toward a definition of chaos for general relativity
- E Woolgar – Causal precedence formalism