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Mathematics and General Relativity
About this Title
James A. Isenberg, Editor
Publication: Contemporary Mathematics
Publication Year:
1988; Volume 71
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-5079-4 (print); 978-0-8218-7660-2 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/conm/071
MathSciNet review: 954403
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Articles
- Roger Penrose – Aspects of quasilocal angular momentum [MR 954404]
- D. Christodoulou and S.-T. Yau – Some remarks on the quasi-local mass [MR 954405]
- William T. Shaw – Quasi-local mass for “large” spheres [MR 954406]
- Rafael D. Sorkin – Conserved quantities as action variations [MR 954407]
- Abhay Ashtekar – A $3+1$ formulation of Einstein self-duality [MR 954408]
- Lee Smolin – Quantum gravity in the self-dual representation [MR 954409]
- Ted Jacobson – Superspace in the self-dual representation of quantum gravity [MR 954410]
- Charles P. Boyer – Self-dual and anti-self-dual Hermitian metrics on compact complex surfaces [MR 954411]
- F. J. Flaherty – Instantons on the quaternionic Siegel space [MR 954412]
- Robert M. Wald – Gauge theories for fields of spin-one and spin-two [MR 954413]
- S. Klainerman – Einstein geometry and hyperbolic equations [MR 954414]
- R. J. Knill and A. P. Whitman – The well-posedness of Rosen’s field equations [MR 954415]
- Victor Szczyrba – Dynamics of quadratic Lagrangians in gravity: Fairchild’s theory [MR 954416]
- William A. Hiscock and Lee Lindblom – Stability in dissipative relativistic fluid theories [MR 954417]
- Jerrold E. Marsden – The Hamiltonian formulation of classical field theory [MR 954418]
- Richard S. Hamilton – The Ricci flow on surfaces [MR 954419]
- Demir N. Kupeli – Curvature and compact spacelike surfaces in $4$-dimensional spacetimes [MR 954420]
- Richard Schoen – Spacetime singularities from high matter densities [MR 954421]
- Marek Kossowski – Metric singularity phenomena in pseudo-Riemannian geometry [MR 954422]
- Karel V. Kuchař – Covariant quantization of dynamical systems with constraints [MR 954423]
- John L. Friedman and Donald M. Witt – Problems on diffeomorphisms arising from quantum gravity [MR 954424]
- Philip B. Yasskin – Initial value decomposition of the spacetime diffeomorphism group [MR 954425]
- P. D. D’Eath and J. J. Halliwell – Inclusion of fermions in the wave function of the universe [MR 954426]
- Michael E. Peskin – Gauge symmetries of string field theory [MR 954427]
- William T. Shaw – Twistors and strings [MR 954428]