Rendiconti della Scuola internazionale di fisica "Enrico Fermi."

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Academic Press, 1979 - Nuclear physics

Contents

Introduction
1
Isolated systems Boundary conditions asymptotics
5
B G SCHMIDT
11
Singular perturbations
21
11
40
WALKER
48
Definitions of energymomentum and angular momentum
55
Introduction pag
63
DEATH Perturbation methods for interactions between
249
Interactions between a selfgravitating body and its sur
257
Dynamics of two slowlymoving black holes
268
Gravitational radiation from highspeed blackhole encounters
280
ANDERSON Approximation methods in general relativity
289
R BEIGA solvable model for radiation damping
307
A ROSENBLUM Gravitational energy loss in scattering prob
313
Introduction
322

Dipoles Hertz potentials and the transmission of radiation
70
WALKER Remarks on Trautmans radiation condition
89
Radiation damping
117
Generalrelativistic laws and equations of motion
118
Applications alternatives conclusions
138
W G DIXON Extended bodies in general relativity their
156
Some mathematical techniques
166
Description of extended bodies
179
Conjectures on unsolved problems
189
The test body approximation
196
Rigid bodies in general relativity
204
Discussion and outlook
212
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220
Gauge invariance and conservation laws
235
Critique
242
The Hamiltonian structure of geometrodynamics
328
The constraint manifold
343
The linearized Einstein system
352
Linearization stability of the vacuum Einstein equations
362
Decomposition of tensors
374
Reduction of phase space and the symplectic space of gravi
380
APPENDIX I Variational derivatives of the scalar curvature
387
Y CHOQUETBRUHAT A E FISCHER and J E MARSDEN
393
Weighted Sobolev and Hölder spaces
401
The existence of maximal hypersurfaces
407
The mass function as the generator of time translation
451
H MÜLLER ZUM HAGEN and H J SEIFERT The characteristic
457
The quasilinear case
472
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