Gravitation and Astrophysics: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop Beijing, China 10 - 15 October 1999

by Liu, Liao; Luo, Jun; Li, Xin-Zhou; Hsu, Jong-Ping

• ISBN13: 9789810244088
• ISBN10: 9810244088
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Summary

Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Gravitation and Astrophysics, held at Beijing Normal University, China, October 10-15, 1999. Topics covered include the superconducting accelerometers, low-temperature-long-distance telescopes for gravitational waves, physics of neutron stars, and the theory of accretion disc. For researchers and students in this area.

Table of Contents

Empirical Tests of the Relativistic Gravity: The Past, The Present and The Future	1	(19)
Wei-Tou Ni
A Three-Dimensional Outer-Magnetospheric Gap Model for Gamma-Ray Pulsars: The Geminga Pulsar	20	(10)
K. S. Cheng
L. Zhang
Gravitational Thermodynamics of Space-time Foam in One-Loop Approximation	30	(6)
L. Liu
Y. G. Ma
Absorbing Charged Rotating Metric in de Sitter Space in Advanced Time Coordinates and the Related Energy-Momentum Tensor	36	(6)
Xu Dian-Yan
Asymptotically Flat Five-Dimensional Axisymmetrical Kaluza-Klein Spacetime Solution	42	(8)
Y. H. Wei
Exact Stiff Dissipative Cosmologies	50	(6)
M. K. Mak
T. Harko
Precision Gravity Experiments Using Superconducting Accelerometers	56	(12)
H. J. Paik
M. V. Moody
Measurement of the Newtonian Gravitational Constant G	68	(12)
Jun Luo
Zhong-Kun Hu
Systematic Errors in the Measurement of G with Torsion Balance	80	(9)
Zhong-Kun Hu
Jun Luo
Baksan Laser Interferometer Observations: Gravitational and Geophysical Aspects	89	(15)
Vadim Milyukov
Scalar Field Dressing of Black Holes in the Bergmann-Nordvedt-Wagoner Theory	104	(8)
K. K. Nandi
T. B. Nayak
What Will Happen When an Accelerating Black Hole Touches its Rindler Horizon	112	(13)
Z. Zhao
W. B. Liu
Y. L. Jiang
Determining the Hubble Constant with Bidirectional Relativistic Proper Motions	125	(7)
Yi-Ping Qin
New Brans-Dicke Wormholes	132	(7)
Feng He
Liao Liu
The Theory of Accretion Disks and Recent Progress in Astrophysics	139	(8)
Yang Lan-Tian
Ding Shi-Xue
Liu Xiao-Ci
Some Rigorous Results of the Cosmic Strings	147	(11)
Xin-Zhou Li
Metric of an Infinitesimal Neighborhood Nearby One of the Two Horizon Poles of an Infinite Kerr Black Hole	158	(5)
Wang Yongcheng
Energy-Momentum (Quasi-) Localization for Gravitating Systems	163	(11)
Chia-Chen Chang
James M. Nester
Chiang-Mei Chen
Large-Scale Cryogenic Gravitational Wave Telescope	174	(8)
Kazuaki Kuroda
LCGT Collaboration
Gravitational Lensing as a Probe of Dark Energy	182	(8)
Z. H. Zhu
L. Cao
Interaction of Spinning Black Hole with Accreting Particles near the Horizon	190	(9)
Wang Ding-Xiong
Entropy of the Semiclassical Schwarzschild Black Hole	199	(7)
Jiliang Jing
Degenerate Metrics and Degenerate Phase Boundaries	206	(9)
Yongge Ma
Canbin Liang
The Evolution of the Universe Based on Finsler Spacetime	215	(9)
Cao Shenglin
Mo Xiaohuan
Investigation of a Laser Walk-off Angle Sensor and Its Application to Tilt Measurement in Gravitational Wave Detector	224	(11)
Z. B. Zhou
J. Winterflood
Li Ju
D. G. Blair
A Generalized Two-Parameteric Hilbert-Palatini Action in Four-Dimensional Gravity	235	(9)
Ya Bo Wu
Einstein Gravity-Supergravity Correspondence	244	(8)
Chiang-Mei Chen
Dmitri V. Galtsov
Sergei Sharakin
Measurement of Tilt Tides with a Folded Pendulum	252	(10)
Wu Shuchao
Fan Shuhua
Luo Jun
Tang Jiaxiang
Self-Dual Conformal Supergravity and the Hamiltonian Formulation	262	(6)
Guoying Chee
Yanhua Jia
On Stable Equilibrium of a Schwarzschild Black Hole and its Hawking Evaporation	268	(10)
C. G. Huang
A Relativistic Rotational Transformation and Its Possible Implications in Astrophysics	278	(11)
Leonardo Hsu
Jong-Ping Hsu
A General Tree-Level Inflation Model Constrained by Observations	289	(13)
Xin-He Meng
Wormhole Solutions in Lovelock Gravity Theory	302	(69)
Shang Yanwen
Zhao Jie
Xu Jianjun
Appendices
Circular Waveguide: A Possible Gravitational Wave Antenna	312	(7)
Mengxi Tang
Fangyu Li
Straight-Line Paths Approximation for High-Energy Elastic and Inelastic Scatterings in Quantum Gravity	319	(15)
Nguyen Suan Han
The Cosmic No-Hair Conjecture (CNHC) in the Einstein-Cartan Theory	334	(17)
H. Q. Lu
T. Harko
M. K. Mak
K. S. Cheng
Entropy of the Semiclassical Black Hole in Thermal Equilibrium with a Scalar Field	351	(8)
Jiliang Jing
Mu-Lin Yan
Wormhole Solutions in Superstring Theory	359	(7)
You-Gen Shen
Da-Ming Chen
Einstein-Maxwell Spacetimes with Two Commuting Spacelike Killing Vector Fields and Newman Penrose Formalism	366	(5)
Z. Q. Kuang
Y. K. Lau
X. N. Wu
Captions and Credits for Photos: Moments between the Sessions	371	(6)
List of Participants	377