Exact Solutions and Scalar Fields in Gravity: Recent DevelopmentsAlfredo Macías, Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota, Claus Lämmerzahl Divided into four parts, this book covers recent developments in topics pertaining to gravity theories, including discussions on the presence of scalar fields. Part One is devoted to exact solutions in general relativity, and is mainly concerned with the results of rotating null dust beams and fluids. Also included is a panoramic vision of new research directions in this area, which would require revising certain theorems and their possible extensions within gravity theories, new aspects concerning the Ernst potentials, double Kerr spacetimes, and rotating configurations. In particular, there is a detailed discussion of totally symmetric and totally geodesic spaces, in which a method for generating (2+1)-dimensional solutions from (3+1)-dimensional solutions is given. Part Two deals with alternative theories of gravity, all of which include scalar fields and gauge fields. Here, quantum and cosmological effects, which arise from both gravity theories in four and higher dimensions and from metric-affine theories, are investigated. Part Three is devoted to cosmological and inflationary scenarios. Local effects, such as the influence of scalar fields in protogalactic interactions, numerical studies of the collapse of molecular cores, as well as the inverse inflationary problem and the blue eigenvalue spectrum of it, are considered. Moreover, the role of scalar fields as dark matter and quantum cosmology in the Bergman-Wagoner and Gowdy theories, together with the relation of the conformal symmetry and deflationary gas universe, are likewise presented. The last part of the book includes some mixed topics which are still in the experimental stage. Among them are the foundation of the Maxwell theory, a discussion on electromagnetic Thirring problems, a note on the staticity of black holes with non-minimally coupled scalar fields, and a study of the Lorentz force free charged fluids in general relativity. Thus, this book is the most up-to-date, comprehensive collection of papers on the subject of exact solutions and scalar fields in gravity and is a valuable tool for researchers in the area. |
Contents
Differential rota | 3 |
Discussion of the theta formula for the Ernst potential of the rigidly rotating | 5 |
New Directions for the New Millennium | 15 |
On maximally symmetric and totally geodesic spaces | 23 |
disk of dust | 39 |
3 | 48 |
The superposition of null dust beams in General Relativity | 53 |
Solving equilibrium problem for the doubleKerr spacetime | 63 |
Classical and Quantum cosmology with and without selfinteracting scalar | 189 |
field in BergmannWagoner theory | 195 |
Luis O Pimentel Cesar Mora | 196 |
Condition Leonardo Di G Sigalotti Jaime Klapp | 223 |
4 | 228 |
Conformal symmetry and deflationary gas universe Winfried Zimdahl Alexander B Balakin | 247 |
Staticity Theorem for NonRotating Black Holes with NonMinimally Cou | 263 |
Conclusions Quantum nondemolition measurements and nonNewtonian gravity A Camacho | 269 |
Rotating equilibrium configurations in Einsteins theory of gravitation | 69 |
Integrability of SDYM Equations for the Moyal Bracket Lie Algebra | 77 |
Przanowski J F Plebański S Formański | 91 |
New solutions of Bianchi models in scalartensor theories | 155 |
Scalar Field Dark Matter | 165 |
3 | 171 |
The Galaxy Center | 181 |
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