Gravitation and Astrophysics : On the Occasion of the 90th Year of General Relativity: Proceedings of the VII Asia-Pacific International Conference: National Central University, Taiwan, 23-36 November 2005

by Nester, James M.; Chen, Chiang-Mei; Hsu, Jong-Ping

• ISBN13: 9789812569509
• ISBN10: 9812569502
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-15
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

The ICGA series of conferences is specially aimed to serve the needs of the workers in this research area in the Asia-Pacific region. The previous conferences of this series have attracted a growing number of local, regional and international participants. 2005 was an auspicious year. Not only was it the International Year of Physics, commemorating Einstein's great achievements of 1905, it also was the anniversary of Einstein's development of General Relativity: he submitted the final form of his field equations on 25 November, 1915. Nine decades years later, around 40 Taiwan-based participants were joined by over 40 distinguished visitors from Canada, China, France, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the USA, and this volume includes many of the papers that were presented. The depth and breadth of these contributions reflect the high quality of the meeting and the development of the field in the Asia-Pacific region.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Experimental Tests of Gravity	p. 1
Progress in Testing Newtonian Inverse Square Law	p. 3
Null Test of the Inverse-Square Law at 100-Micrometer Distance	p. 9
Numerical Relativity	p. 21
A New Generalized Harmonic Evolution System	p. 23
Numerical Relativity Beyond I[superscript +]	p. 31
Improved Numerical Stability of Rotating Black Hole Evolution Calculations	p. 45
Cosmology	p. 51
Integrable Cosmological Models in DD and Variations of Fundamental Constants	p. 53
Coupled Quintessence and CMB	p. 69
Cosmic Lee-Yang Force, Dark Energy and Accelerated Wu-Doppler Effect	p. 79
Accelerating Expansion from Inhomogeneities?	p. 87
Thermalization in the Inflationary Universe	p. 94
Dark Energy and Wormhole	p. 102
Cosmic Bose Einstein Condensation - Induced Inflation and Early Formation of Black Holes	p. 111
Gravitational Lensing in TeVe S	p. 120
An Issue to The Cosmological Constant Problem	p. 125
Astrophysics	p. 135
Black Hole Mass Determination for Blazars	p. 137
Black Holes as the Central Engines for Astrophysical Sources	p. 142
The Third Cloud Over General Relativity-Anomalous Acceleration of Pioneer 10 and 11 and its Possible Explanation	p. 147
General Formula for Comparison of Clock Rates -Applications to Cosmos and Solar System	p. 154
Searching for Sub-Millisecond Pulsars: A Theoretical View	p. 159
Quantum Gravity	p. 169
Low-Energy Quantum Gravity	p. 171
Mass Renormalization at Finite Temperature and Random Motion of an Electron Driven by Quantum Electromagnetic Fluctuations	p. 177
Quantum Gravity Phenomenology and Black Hole Physics	p. 183
Uniformly Accelerated Detector in (3+1)D Spacetime: From Vacuum Fluctuations to Radiation Flux	p. 191
Signatures of Spacetime Geometry Fluctuations	p. 198
Dyadospheres Don't Develop	p. 206
The Quantized Schwarzschild Black Hole and the Possible Origin of Dark Matter	p. 216
The Origin of the Immirzi Parameter in Loop Quantum Gravity	p. 221
Quantum Entanglement in Non-Inertial Frames	p. 226
Black Hole Fluctuations and Dynamics from Back-Reaction of Hawking Radiation: Current Work and Further Studies Based on Stochastic Gravity	p. 236
Classical Gravity	p. 251
Growth of Primordial Black Holes	p. 253
De Sitter Invariant Special Relativity	p. 260
Scalar Field Contribution to Rotating Black Hole Entropy - Semiclassical Method	p. 269
Further Simplification of the Constraints of Four-Dimensional Gravity	p. 278
Evaporation of Bardeen Black Holes	p. 284
On Non-Uniform Charged Black Branes	p. 292
Quasi-local Mass and the Final Fate of Gravitational Collapse in Gauss-Bonnet Gravity	p. 300
Gyraton Solutions in Einstein-Maxwell Theory and Supergravity	p. 308
Stationary Spacetime with Intersecting Branes in M/ Superstring Theory	p. 318
Wave Maps on Black Holes in any Dimensions	p. 331
Geometric Characterization of Purely In- or Out-Going Gravitational Radiation at a Finite Distance	p. 336
Radiation Reaction in Curved Space-Time: Local Method	p. 346
Classical Pseudotenors and Positivity in Small Regions	p. 356
A Brief Review of Initial Data Engineering	p. 363
Abelian Decomposition of Einstein's Theory: Reformulation of General Relativity	p. 373
Quasi-Local Energy Flux	p. 389
The Hamiltonian Boundary Term	p. 396
Dynamical Untrapped Hypersurfaces	p. 403
International Organizing Committee	p. 409
Local Organizing Committee	p. 410
List of Speakers	p. 411
List of Participants	p. 413
Photos: Group Photo, Moments Between the Sessions...	p. 416
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