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

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 p...

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Other Authors: Frauendiener, J. (Jörg), 1958-, Friedrich, H. (Helmut), 1944-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, [2002]
Series:Lecture notes in physics ; 604.
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Table of Contents:
  • Conformal Einstein Evolution
  • Some Global Results for Asymptotically Simple Space-Times
  • Black Holes
  • Conformal Geometry, Differential Equations and Associated Transformation
  • Twistor Geometry of Conformal Infinity
  • Isotropic Cosmological Singularities
  • Polyhomogeneous Expansion Close to Null and Spatial Infinity
  • Asymptotically Flat and Regular Cauchy Data
  • Construction for Hyperboloidal Initial Data
  • Exploring the Conformal Constraint Equations
  • Criterial for (in)finite Extent of Static Perfect Fluids
  • Problems and Successes in the Numerical Approach to the Conformal Field Equations
  • On 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 Variable
  • Null Infinity in the Null Quasispherical Gauge
  • Local Characteristic Algorithms for Relativistic Hydrodynamics. Simulations of Generic Singularities in Harmonic Coordinates.