Since 1975, the Marcel Grossmann Meetings have been organized to provide opportunities for discussing recent advances in gravitation, general relativity and relativistic field theories, emphasizing mathematical foundations, physical predictions and experimental tests. The objective of these meetings is to facilitate exchange among scientists that may deepen our understanding of space-time structures and to review the status of ongoing experiments aimed at testing Einstein's theory of gravitation from either the ground or space.The Eighth Marcel Grossmann Meeting took place on 22-27 June, 1997, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. The scientific program included 25 plenary talks and 40 parallel sessions during which 400 papers were presented. The papers that appear in this book cover all aspects of gravitation, from mathematical issues to recent observations and experiments.
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Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
ISBN-13
978-981-02-3793-6 (9789810237936)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Herausgeber*in
Hebrew Univ Of Jerusalem, Israel
Int'l Center For Relativistic Astrophysics Network (Icranet), Italy & Univ Of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
Part 1 Conservation laws: exact solutions; inertial forces in general relativity; alternative theories in four dimensions; alternative theories (Kaluza-Klein); hairy black holes; time machines; chaos in general relativity; Einstein Maxwell systems; mass inflation; critical phenomena; numerical relativity; algebraic computations; quantum fields in curved space time. Part 2 Time in quantum gravity: canonical quantum gravity; strings; the casimir effect; black hole thermodynamics; quantum cosmology; gravitational wave detectors (bars, interferometers, sources, future); general relativity in space; experimental tests; equivalence principle in space; observational cosmology; inflation; topological defects; early universe; cosmic microwave background; nonsingular cosmology; dark matter; astro-particles; gravitational lenses; extragalactic sources; QPOs; binary neutron stars; microlenses; gamma ray bursts; Boson stars.
