| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 350 pages) : illustrations |
| Note |
"GR17, Dublin 2004." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The status of Nnumerical relativity -- Loop quantum gravity, Quantum geometry and spin foams -- Towards detection of gravitational waves -- Advances in relativistic astrophysics -- Recent results in mathematical relativity -- Black holes and the information paradox -- Gravitation and cosmology in Brane-worlds -- gravitation and cosmology in Brane-worlds -- Advanced gravitational-wave detector technologies: future generations of interferometers -- Probing general relativity on the scales of cosmology -- Relativity and astrophysics with LISA -- The gravitationai self-force -- Cosmic superstrings revisited -- Quantum computation -- Black holes in active galactic nuclei -- The implications for cosmology of WMAP data. |
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Al: exact solutions and their interpretation -- A2: complex methods, twistors, and connection variables -- A3: mathematical studies of the field equations -- A4: analytic approximation and perturbation methods -- A5: numerical relativity and algebraic computing -- A6: alternative theories of gravity -- B1: relativistic astrophysics -- B2(i): cosmology (i), early universe -- B2(ii): cosmology (ii). Late universe and gravitational lenses -- B2(iii): cosmology (iii). dark energy and the cosmological constant -- B3: gravitational wave sources: source science, statistical methods -- Cl(i): gravitational-wave detection (i). detector performance, operation, and commissioning -- Cl(ii): gravitational-wave detection (ii). current gravitational wave detector results -- Cl(iii): gravitational-wave detection (iii). advanced detector research and development -- Cl(iv): gravitational-wave detection (iv). space-based interferomet -- C2: laboratory and observational tests of gravitational theories -- D.l: quantum general relativity -- D2: string and M theory -- D3: quantum field theory on curved spacetime. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
General relativity (Physics) -- Congresses.
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Gravitation -- Congresses.
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Gravitational waves -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Florides, Petros.
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Nolan, Brien.
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Ottewill, Andrian.
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| Added Title |
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation |
| Other Form: |
Print version: International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (17th : 2004 : Dublin, Ireland). General relativity and gravitation. Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, ©2005 9789812564245 (DLC) 2006299143 (OCoLC)64272700 |
| ISBN |
1281897280 |
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9781281897282 |
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9789812701688 (electronic bk.) |
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9812701680 (electronic bk.) |
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9812564241 |
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9789812564245 |
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