Gravitation And Astrophysics: On The Occasion Of The 90th Year Of General Relativity - Proceedings Of The Vii Asia-pacific International Conference

by Chiang-mei Chen, James M Nester, Jong-ping Hsu

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789812569509
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	12/15/2006
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.13(w) x 9.11(h) x 1.15(d)

Table of Contents

Preface     v
Experimental Tests of Gravity     1
Progress in Testing Newtonian Inverse Square Law   S.-G. Guan   L.-C. Tu   J. Luo     3
Null Test of the Inverse-Square Law at 100-Micrometer Distance   H. J. Paik   V. A. Prieto   M. V. Moody     9
Numerical Relativity     21
A New Generalized Harmonic Evolution System   L. Lindblom   M. A. Scheel   L. E. Kiddler   R. Owen   O. Rinne     23
Numerical Relativity Beyond I[superscript +]   C. M. Misner   J. R. van Meter   D. R. Fiske     31
Improved Numerical Stability of Rotating Black Hole Evolution Calculations   H. J. Yo     45
Cosmology     51
Integrable Cosmological Models in DD and Variations of Fundamental Constants   V. N. Melnikov     53
Coupled Quintessence and CMB   S. C. Lee     69
Cosmic Lee-Yang Force, Dark Energy and Accelerated Wu-Doppler Effect   J. P. Hsu   Z. H. Ning     79
Accelerating Expansion from Inhomogeneities?   J. A. Gu     87
Thermalization in the Inflationary Universe   S. P. Kim     94
Dark Energy and Wormhole   S. W. Kim     102
Cosmic Bose Einstein Condensation - Induced Inflation and Early Formation of Black Holes   T. Fukuyama   M. Morikawa     111
Gravitational Lensing in TeVe S   M. C. Chiu   C. M. Ko   Y. Tian     120
An Issue to The Cosmological Constant Problem   R. Triay     125
Astrophysics     135
Black Hole Mass Determination for Blazars   J. H. Fan   J. Li   J. L. Zhou   T. X. Hua   Y. X. Wang   J. H. Yang     137
Black Holes as the Central Engines for Astrophysical Sources   Y.-F. Yuan   J.-M. Shi     142
The Third Cloud Over General Relativity-Anomalous Acceleration of Pioneer 10 and 11 and its Possible Explanation   C. M. Xu   X. J. Wu     147
General Formula for Comparison of Clock Rates -Applications to Cosmos and Solar System   C. M. Xu   X. J. Wu   E. Bruning     154
Searching for Sub-Millisecond Pulsars: A Theoretical View   R. X. Xu     159
Quantum Gravity     169
Low-Energy Quantum Gravity   M. A. Ivanov     171
Mass Renormalization at Finite Temperature and Random Motion of an Electron Driven by Quantum Electromagnetic Fluctuations   H. W. Yu     177
Quantum Gravity Phenomenology and Black Hole Physics   Y. Ling     183
Uniformly Accelerated Detector in (3+1)D Spacetime: From Vacuum Fluctuations to Radiation Flux   S. Y. Lin   B. L. Hu     191
Signatures of Spacetime Geometry Fluctuations   L. H. Ford   R. T. Thompson     198
Dyadospheres Don't Develop   D. N. Page     206
The Quantized Schwarzschild Black Hole and the Possible Origin of Dark Matter   L. Liu   S. Y. Pei     216
The Origin of the Immirzi Parameter in Loop Quantum Gravity   H. L. Yu     221
Quantum Entanglement in Non-Inertial Frames   R. Mann   I. Fuentes-Schuller     226
Black Hole Fluctuations and Dynamics from Back-Reaction of Hawking Radiation: Current Work and Further Studies Based on Stochastic Gravity   B. L. Hu   A. Roura     236
Classical Gravity     251
Growth of Primordial Black Holes   T. Harada     253
De Sitter Invariant Special Relativity   C.-G. Huang   H.-Y. Guo     260
Scalar Field Contribution to Rotating Black Hole Entropy - Semiclassical Method   M. Kenmoku     269
Further Simplification of the Constraints of Four-Dimensional Gravity   C. Soo     278
Evaporation of Bardeen Black Holes   S. A. Hayward     284
On Non-Uniform Charged Black Branes   U. Miyamoto     292
Quasi-local Mass and the Final Fate of Gravitational Collapse in Gauss-Bonnet Gravity   H. Maeda     300
Gyraton Solutions in Einstein-Maxwell Theory and Supergravity   V. P. Frolov     308
Stationary Spacetime with Intersecting Branes in M/ Superstring Theory   K. Maeda     318
Wave Maps on Black Holes in any Dimensions   M. Narita     331
Geometric Characterization of Purely In- or Out-Going Gravitational Radiation at a Finite Distance   J. H. Yoon     336
Radiation Reaction in Curved Space-Time: Local Method   D. V. Gal'tsov   P. Spirin   S. Staub     346
Classical Pseudotenors and Positivity in Small Regions   L. L. So   J. M. Nester   H. Chen     356
A Brief Review of Initial Data Engineering   P. T. Chrusciel   J. Isenberg   D. Pollack     363
Abelian Decomposition of Einstein's Theory: Reformulation of General Relativity   Y. M. Cho   S. W. Kim     373
Quasi-Local Energy Flux   J. M. Nester    C. -M. Chen   R. -S. Tung     389
The Hamiltonian Boundary Term   J. M. Nester   C. -M. Chen   R. -S. Tung     396
Dynamical Untrapped Hypersurfaces   R. -S. Tung     403
International Organizing Committee     409
Local Organizing Committee     410
List of Speakers     411
List of Participants     413
Photos: Group Photo, Moments Between the Sessions...     416