Hawking on the big bang and black holes

著者

• Hawking, Stephen W.

書誌事項

Hawking on the big bang and black holes

Stephen Hawking

（Advanced series in astrophysics and cosmology, v. 8）

World Scientific, 1993

• : pbk

注記

Includes bibliographical references

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Stephen Hawking, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, has made important theoretical contributions to gravitational theory and has played a major role in the development of cosmology and black hole physics.Hawking's early work, partly in collaboration with Roger Penrose, showed the significance of spacetime singularities for the big bang and black holes. His later work has been concerned with a deeper understanding of these two issues. The work required extensive use of the two great intellectual achievements of the first half of the Twentieth Century: general relativity and quantum mechanics; and these are reflected in the reprinted articles. Hawking's key contributions on black hole radiation and the no-boundary condition on the origin of the universe are included.The present compilation of Stephen Hawking's most important work also includes an introduction by him, which guides the reader though the major highlights of the volume. This volume is thus an essential item in any library and will be an important reference source for those interested in theoretical physics and applied mathematics.

目次

• The singularities of gravitational collapse and cosmology, R.Penrose
• the event horizon
• particle creation by black holes
• cosmological event horizons, thermodynamics and particle creation, G.W.Gibbons
• action integrals and partition functions in quantum gravity, G.W.Gibbons
• introductory survey, general relativity - an Einstein centenary survey, W.Israel
• the path integral approach to quantum gravity in general relativity
• wave function of the universe, J.B.Hartle
• quantum cosmology
• the origin of structure in the universe, J.J.Halliwell
• wormholes in spacetime
• the chronology protection conjecture.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA20563418
• ISBN:
  • 9810210787
  • 9810210795
• 出版国コード: si
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Singapore
• ページ数/冊数: vi, 312 p.
• 大きさ: 27 cm
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA03432184