Proceedings of the 5th Canadian Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics, University of Waterloo, 13-15 May, 1993

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Proceedings of the 5th Canadian Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics, University of Waterloo, 13-15 May, 1993

R.B. Mann, R.G. McLenaghan

World Scientific, c1994

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General relativity and relativistic astrophysics

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This volume contains up-to-date accounts of many of the latest developments in gravitation, cosmology and astrophysics, including papers on black hole radiation, empirical tests of gravitational theory, quantum gravity, classical and quantum cosmology, singularities, computational methods, and a number of other topics. The keynote speakers include S Carlip, M Haugan, A Linde, D Page, G Papini, K Schleich, P Szekeres, G Starkman and J York.

Table of Contents

  • Black hole information, D Page
  • energy, temperature, and entropy of black holes dressed with quantum fields, J York
  • experimental gravitation physics - past accomplishments and future prospects, M Haugan
  • quantum phases and spin - gravity coupling, G Papini
  • comments on inflationary cosmology, A Linde
  • the nature of the dark matter, G Starkman
  • six ways to quantize 2+1 dimensional gravity, S Carlip
  • simplicial quantum gravity, K Schleich
  • singularities in general relativity, P Szekeres. (Part Contents).

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