The Conformal Structure of Space-Time [electronic resource] : Geometry, Analysis, Numerics / edited by Jörg Frauendiener, Helmut Friedrich.
Material type: TextSeries: Lecture Notes in Physics ; 604Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2002Description: XIV, 374 p. online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9783540458180
- 530.1 23
- QC178
- QC173.5-173.65
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.
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.
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