The conformal structure of space-time : geometry, analysis, numerics

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    • Frauendiener, Jörg
    • Friedrich, Helmut

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The conformal structure of space-time : geometry, analysis, numerics

J. Frauendiener, H. Friedrich (eds.)

(Lecture notes in physics, 604)(Physics and astronomy online library)

Springer, c2002

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Causal relations, and with them the underlying null cone or conformal structure, form a basic ingredient in all general analytical studies of asymptotically flat space-time. The present book reviews these aspects from the analytical, geometrical and numerical points of view. Care has been taken to present the material in a way that will also be accessible to postgraduate students and nonspecialist reseachers from related fields.

Table of Contents

Conformal Einstein Evolution.- Some Global Results for Asymptotically Simple Space-Times.- Black Holes.- Conformal Geometry, Differential Equations and Associated Transformations.- Twistor Geometry of Conformal Infinity.- Isotropic Cosmological Singularities.- Polyhomogeneous Expansions Close to Null and Spatial Infinity.- Asymptotically Flat and Regular Cauchy Data.- Construction of Hyperboloidal Initial Data.- Exploring the Conformal Constraint Equations.- Criteria for (In)finite Extent of Static Perfect Fluids.- Problems and Successes in the Numerical Approach to the Conformal Field Equations.- Some Aspects of the Numerical Treatment of the Conformal Field Equations.- Data for the Numerical Calculation of the Kruskal Space-Time.- Numerics of the Characteristic Formulation in Bondi Variables. Where We Are and What Lies Ahead.- Numerical Experiments at Null Infinity.- Local Characteristic Algorithms for Relativistic Hydrodynamics.- Simulations of Generic Singularities in Harmonic Coordinates.- Some Mathematical and Numerical Questions Connected with First and Second Order Time-Dependent Systems of Partial Differential Equations.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA60846688
  • ISBN
    • 3540442804
  • Country Code
    gw
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Berlin ; Tokyo
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiv, 373 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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