Title:
Physics and mathematics of gravitation : proceedings of the Spanish Relativity Meeting 2008 = Encuentros Relativistas Españoles 2008, Salamanca, Spain 15-19 September 2008
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Series:
AIP conference proceedings ; 1122
Publication Information:
Melville, N.Y. : American Institute of Physics, c2009
Physical Description:
xiii, 433 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
9780735406582
General Note:
"Emphasis was put on the theoretical aspects of gravitation ... [partly] in connection with fundamental particle and field theoretical physics ... [along with] topics in cosmology and relativistic astrophysics ... [as well as] a wide variety of topics ... ranging from numerical relativity to string theory"--Pref.
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Summary
Emphasis was put on the theoretical aspects of gravitation ... partly] in connection with fundamental particle and field theoretical physics ... along with] topics in cosmology and relativistic astrophysics ... as well as] a wide variety of topics ... ranging from numerical relativity to string theory--Pref.
Table of Contents
Preface | p. xi |
Committees | p. xii |
Sponsors | p. xiii |
Invited Lectures | |
The Trapped Region | p. 3 |
Black Holes, Information and Holography | p. 12 |
The Wave Equation on Axisymmetric Stationary Black Hole Backgrounds | p. 19 |
Graviton Production in Brane Worlds by the Dynamical Casimir Effect | p. 39 |
Physics of the Twentieth Century, and Beyond | p. 55 |
Sim(n-2): Very Special Relativity and Its Deformations, Holonomy and Quantum Corrections | p. 63 |
On the Boundary of the Region Containing Trapped Surfaces | p. 72 |
Contributed Papers | |
Comparison Theory of Lorentzian Distance with Applications to Spacelike Hypersurfaces | p. 91 |
Revisiting the Semiclassical Gravity Scenario for Gravitational Collapse | p. 99 |
Avoiding the Dark Energy Coincidence Problem with a Cosmic Vector | p. 107 |
The Dynamics of Topology Change | p. 115 |
Cosmological Vector Perturbations in Vector-Tensor Theories of Gravitation. CMB Anomalies | p. 121 |
Five Dimensional Minimal Supergravities and Four Dimensional Complex Geometries | p. 129 |
Non-Abelian Black Holes and Black Strings in Higher Dimensions | p. 137 |
Local Temperature for Dynamical Black Holes | p. 145 |
Asymmetric Black Diholes | p. 152 |
The Interaction Rate in Holographic Models of Dark Energy | p. 156 |
Some Recent Problems in Lorentzian Geometry and Possible Applications to General Relativity | p. 164 |
Chaos and Vacuum Gravitational Collapse | p. 172 |
Communications | |
Information Geometry of Asymptotically AdS Black Holes | p. 181 |
Semiclassical States for a Symmetry Reduced Gravitational System | p. 185 |
The Palatini Formalism for Higher-Curvature Gravity Theories | p. 189 |
On the Dark Energy Rest Frame and the CMB | p. 193 |
Dynamics of Dark Energy with a Coupling to Dark Matter | p. 197 |
Late-Time Acceleration in a Brane with Curvature Effects | p. 201 |
Non-Linear Perturbations of a Spherically Collapsing Star | p. 205 |
Quantal Definition of the Weak Equivalence Principle | p. 209 |
Exact f(R)-Cosmological Model Coming from the Request of the Existence of a Noether Symmetry | p. 213 |
Flat Deformation Theorem and Symmetries in Spacetime | p. 217 |
Marginally Outer Trapped Surfaces and Symmetries | p. 221 |
Emission Coordinates in Minkowski Space-Time | p. 225 |
Dark Energy and Dark Matter as Quantum Vacuum Effects | p. 229 |
Improved Constrained Scheme for the Einstein Equations: An Approach to the Uniqueness Issue | p. 232 |
Holographic Kinetic k-Essence Cosmologies | p. 236 |
Matching Stationary and Axisymmetric Spacetimes in Perturbation Theory: Lichnerowicz vs. Darmois Junction Conditions in Harmonic Gauge | p. 240 |
Fourth-Order Gravities, Statefinders and Exotic Cosmological Singularities | p. 244 |
New Results for Petrov-type D Pure Radiation Fields | p. 248 |
Cosmological Density Perturbations in Modified Gravity Theories | p. 252 |
Generalizing Twisted Gauge Invariance | p. 256 |
Constructing Traversable Wormholes: An Initial Value Approach | p. 260 |
Cosmological Singularities and Modified Theories of Gravity | p. 264 |
On the Intrinsic Labeling of Space-Times: A Characterization of the Kerr Solution | p. 268 |
The Causal Boundary of Standard Stationary Spacetimes | p. 272 |
Kerr Initial Data | p. 276 |
Finite Axisymmetric Charged Dust Disks Sources for Conformastatic Spacetimes | p. 280 |
Exact Static Axially Symmetric Thin Annular Dust Disks | p. 284 |
Self-Similar Black Holes in an Accelerated Universe | p. 288 |
Vestiges of the Interaction between Dark Energy and Dark Matter | p. 292 |
A Double Myers-Perry Black Hole: An Inverse Scattering Construction | p. 296 |
Towards Some Generalization of Birkhoff's Theorem | p. 300 |
How Sensitive is Hawking Radiation to Superluminal Dispersion Relations? | p. 304 |
Application of Initial Data Sequences to the Study of Black Hole Dynamical Trapping Horizons | p. 308 |
On the Existence of Kundt's Metrics with Compact Sections of Null Hypersurfaces | p. 312 |
Separating Expansion from Contraction and Generalizing TOV Condition in Spherically Symmetric Models with Pressure | p. 316 |
High Resolution Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Simulations of the Colaescence of Double White Dwarfs | p. 320 |
Supersymmetric Quantum Cosmology | p. 324 |
Dynamical Black Holes with Symmetry in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity | p. 328 |
On the Simplest Binary System of Rotating Black Holes | p. 332 |
Non-Abelian Black Hole Solutions in Supergravity | p. 336 |
Matching Stationary Spacetimes in Cylindrical Symmetry | p. 340 |
Avoiding Closed Timelike Curves with a Collapsing Rotating Null Dust Shell | p. 344 |
Parametric Resonance with Multi-Frequencies in Preheating | p. 348 |
Chronological Null Complete Spacetimes Admit a Global Time | p. 352 |
On Spherically Symmetric Gravitational Collapse in the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Theory | p. 356 |
A Characterization of the Electromagnetic Stress-Energy Tensor | p. 360 |
On Kerr-Schild Spacetimes in Higher Dimensions | p. 364 |
F-Term Hybrid Inflation Followed by Modular Inflation | p. 368 |
Fermi Liquids in Compact Astrophysical Objects under Strong Magnetic Fields | p. 372 |
Simplectic Time Integrators for Numerical General Relativity | p. 376 |
Gravitational Collapse of Prolate Brill Waves | p. 380 |
Implementation of Absorbing Boundary Conditions for the Einstein Equations | p. 384 |
The Heat Flux from a Relativistic Kinetic Equation with a Simplified Collision Kernel | p. 388 |
Thermodynamic Route to Field Equations in Gravity | p. 392 |
Structure Formation in Modified Gravity | p. 396 |
Magnetic Torsional Oscillations in Magnetars | p. 400 |
Apparent Horizons in D-Dimensional Robinson-Trautman Spacetime | p. 404 |
Two Solutions of Macroscopic Gravity | p. 408 |
Complete Classification of the Wainwright Petrov Type D Perfect Fluid Models | p. 412 |
Accelerated Expansion through Interaction | p. 416 |
List of Participants | p. 421 |
Conference Photograph | p. 429 |
Author Index | p. 431 |