Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2000-04-05
Lect.Notes Phys. 540 (2000) 1-126
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
126 Pages, 13 Figures, 360 References
Scientific paper
Contents: 1) Introduction and a few excursions [A word on the role of explicit solutions in other parts of physics and astrophysics. Einstein's field equations. "Just so" notes on the simplest solutions: The Minkowski, de Sitter and anti-de Sitter spacetimes. On the interpretation and characterization of metrics. The choice of solutions. The outline] 2) The Schwarzschild solution [Spherically symmetric spacetimes. The Schwarzschild metric and its role in the solar system. Schwarzschild metric outside a collapsing star. The Schwarzschild-Kruskal spacetime. The Schwarzschild metric as a case against Lorentz-covariant approaches. The Schwarzschild metric and astrophysics] 3) The Reissner- Nordstrom solution [Reissner-Nordstrom black holes and the question of cosmic censorship. On extreme black holes, d-dimensional black holes, string theory and "all that"] 4) The Kerr metric [Basic features. The physics and astrophysics around rotating black holes. Astrophysical evidence for a Kerr metric] 5) Black hole uniqueness and multi-black hole solutions 6) Stationary axisymmetric fields and relativistic disks [Static Weyl metrics. Relativistic disks as sources of the Kerr metric and other stationary spacetimes. Uniformly rotating disks] 7) Taub-NUT space [A new way to the NUT metric. Taub-NUT pathologies and applications] 8) Plane waves and their collisions [Plane-fronted waves. New developments and applications. Colliding plane waves] 9) Cylindrical waves [Cylindrical waves and the asymptotic structure of 3-dimensional general relativity. Cylindrical waves and quantum gravity. Cylindrical waves: a miscellany] 10) On the Robinson-Trautman solutions 11) The boost-rotation symmetric radiative spacetimes 12) The cosmological models [Spatially homogeneous cosmologies. Inhomogeneous models] 13) Concluding remarks
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