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CONTENTS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
XXIII
PART A INTRODUCTION TO SPACETIME STRUCTURE
1 FROM /ETHER THEORY TO SPECIAL RELATIVITY
RAFAEL FERRARO 3
1.1 SPACE AND TIME IN CLASSICAL MECHANICS K
1.2 RELATIVITY IN CLASSICAL MECHANICS 6
1.3 THE THEORY OF LIGHT AND ABSOLUTE MOTION 8
L.H EINSTEIN'S SPECIAL RELATIVITY 13
1.5 RELATIVISTIC MECHANICS 19
1.6 CONCLUSION 23
REFERENCES 2^
2 THE HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF SPACETIME
SCOTT WALTER 27
2.1 POINCARE'S THEORY OF GRAVITATION 27
2.2 MINKOWSKI'S PATH TO SPACETIME 30
2.3 SPACETIME DIAGRAMS 3^
REFERENCES 37
3
RELATIVITY TODAY
NICK M.J. WOODHOUSE 39
3.1 OPERATIONAL DEFINITIONS **0
3.2 LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS IN TWO DIMENSIONS ^3
3.3 INERTIA! COORDINATES IN FOUR DIMENSIONS K6
3M VECTORS W
3.5 PROPER TIME 52
3.6 FOUR-ACCELERATION 53
3.7 VISUAL OBSERVATION 5^
3.8 OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF MASS 56
3.9 MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS 58
REFERENCES 60
ACCELERATION AND GRAVITY: EINSTEIN'S PRINCIPLE OF EQUIVALENCE
LEWIS RYDER 61
^.1 PROLOGUE 61
H.7 THE ROLE OF THE EQUIVALENCE PRINCIPLE IN GENERAL RELATIVITY 61
^.3 EXPERIMENTAL TESTS -. 6^
U.K RELATIVISTIC DEFINITION OF ACCELERATION 65
K.5 ACCELERATING FRAME IN MINKOWSKI SPACETIME 67 -
^.6 CONCLUDING REMARKS 69
REFERENCES 69
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5 THE GEOMETRY OF NEWTON'S AND EINSTEIN'S THEORIES
GRAHAM S. HALL 71
5.1 GUIDE TO CHAPTER 71
5.2 GEOMETRY 72
5.3 NEWTONIAN MECHANICS I IK
5A NEWTONIAN MECHANICS II 75
5.5 SPECIAL RELATIVITY 78
5.6 ABSOLUTE AND DYNAMICAL VARIABLES; COVARIANCE 80
5.7 GENERAL RELATIVITY 81
5.8 COSMOLOGY 85
REFERENCES 88
6 TIME IN SPECIAL RELATIVITY
DENNIS DIEKS 91
6.1 THE SPACETIME OF PRERELATIVISTIC PHYSICS 92
6.2 THE SPACETIME STRUCTURE OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY 95
6.3 PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES 103
REFERENCES 112
PART B FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES
7 RIGID MOTION AND ADAPTED FRAMES
STEPHEN N. LYLE 117
7.1 RIGID ROD IN SPECIAL RELATIVITY 117
7.2 FRAME FOR AN ACCELERATING OBSERVER 119
7.3 GENERAL MOTION OF A CONTINUOUS MEDIUM 122
7A RIGID MOTION OF A CONTINUOUS MEDIUM 123
7.5 RATE OF STRAIN TENSOR 123
7.6 EXAMPLES OF RIGID MOTION 125
7.7 RIGID MOTION WITHOUT ROTATION 127
7.8 RIGID ROTATION 128
7.9 GENERALIZED UNIFORM ACCELERATION AND SUPERHELICAL MOTIONS 129
7.10 A BRIEF CONCLUSION 138
REFERENCES 139
8 PHYSICS AS SPACETIME GEOMETRY
VESSELIN PETKOV LKL
8.1 FOUNDATIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND REALITY OF SPACETIME IKL
8.2 FOUR-DIMENSIONAL PHYSICS AS SPACETIME GEOMETRY 1^3
8.3 PROPAGATION OF LIGHT IN NONINERTIAL REFERENCE FRAMES
IN SPACETIME 156
REFERENCES 162
9 ELECTRODYNAMICS OF RADIATING CHARGES IN A GRAVITATIONAL FIELD
0YVIND GR0N 165
9.1 THE DYNAMICS OF A CHARGED PARTICLE 165
9.2 SCHOTT ENERGY AS ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD ENERGY 168
9.3 PRE-ACCELERATION AND SCHOTT ENERGY 170
9A ENERGY CONSERVATION DURING RUNAWAY MOTION 173
9.5 SCHOTT ENERGY AND RADIATED ENERGY OF A FREELY FALLING CHARGE 176
9.6 NONINVARIANCE OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION 178
9.7 OTHER EQUATIONS OF MOTION 182
9.8 CONCLUSION 183
REFERENCES 183
10 THE NATURE AND ORIGIN OF TIME-ASYMMETRIC
SPACETIME STRUCTURES
H. DIETER ZEH 185
10.1 THE TIME ARROW OF GRAVITATING SYSTEMS 185
10.2 BLACK HOLE SPACETIMES 186
10.3 THERMODYNAMICS AND FATE OF BLACK HOLES 188
10.^ EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE 191
10.5 QUANTUM GRAVITY 193
REFERENCES 195
11 TELEPARALLELISM: A NEW INSIGHT INTO GRAVITY
JOSE 6. PEREIRA 197
11.1 PRELIMINARIES 197
11.2 BASIC CONCEPTS 198
11.3 TELEPARALLEL GRAVITY: A BRIEF REVIEW 203
11.^ ACHIEVEMENTS OF TELEPARALLEL GRAVITY 206
11.5 FINAL REMARKS 210
REFERENCES 211
12 GRAVITY AND THE SPACETIME: AN EMERGENT PERSPECTIVE
THANU PADMANABHAN 213
12.1 INTRODUCTION, MOTIVATION, AND SUMMARY 213
12.2 CURIOUS FEATURES IN THE CONVENTIONAL APPROACH TO CLASSICAL GRAVITY
216
12.3 QUANTUM THEORY AND SPACETIME HORIZONS 219
12.K GRAVITATIONAL DYNAMICS AND THERMODYNAMICS OF NULL SURFACES 225
12.5 GRAVITY FROM AN ALTERNATIVE PERSPECTIVE 231
12.6 EMERGENCE OF COSMIC SPACE 233
12.7 A PRINCIPLE TO DETERMINE THE VALUE OF THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT.
237
12.8 CONCLUSIONS 2^1
REFERENCES 2^1
13 SPACETIME AND THE PASSAGE OF TIME
GEORGE F. R. ELLIS, RITUPARNO GOSWAMI 2K3
13.1 SPACETIME AND THE BLOCK UNIVERSE 2K3
13.2 TIME AND THE EMERGING BLOCK UNIVERSE 2MT-
13.3 A PROBLEM: SURFACES OF CHANGE 2K9
13.^ OTHER ARGUMENTS AGAINST AN EBU 251
13.5 TIME WITH AN UNDERLYING TIMELESS SUBSTRATUM 255
13.6 IT'S ALL IN THE MIND 258
13.7 TAKING DELAYED CHOICE QUANTUM EFFECTS INTO ACCOUNT 259
13.8 THE ARROW OF TIME AND CLOSED TIME-LIKE LINES 259
13.9 OVERALL: A MORE REALISTIC VIEW 260
IB.A THE ADM FORMALISM 262
REFERENCES 262
UNITARY REPRESENTATIONS OF THE INHOMOGENEOUS LORENTZ GROUP
AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE IN QUANTUM PHYSICS
NORBERT STRAUMANN 265
1^.1 LORENTZ INVARIANCE IN QUANTUM THEORY 266
LK.2 WIGNER'S HEURISTIC DERIVATION OF THE PROJECTIVE REPRESENTATIONS
OF THE INHOMOGENEOUS LORENTZ GROUP 267
1^.3 ON MACKEY'S THEORY OF INDUCED REPRESENTATIONS 270
LKA FREE CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM FIELDS FOR ARBITRARY SPIN, SPIN,
AND STATISTICS 273
LK.K APPENDIX: SOME KEY POINTS OF MACKEY'S THEORY 277
REFERENCES 278
PART C SPACETIME STRUCTURE AND MATHEMATICS
15 SPINORS
ROBERT GEROCH 281
15.1 SPINOR BASICS 282
15.2 MANIPULATING SPINORS 285
15.3 GROUPS; REPRESENTATIONS 288
15.A- SPINOR STRUCTURE 290
15.5 LIE AND OTHER DERIVATIVES 293
15.6 4-SPINORS 29^
15.7 EUCLIDEAN SPINORS 295
15.8 BASES; SPIN COEFFICIENTS 298
15.9 VARIATIONS INVOLVING SPINORS 299
REFERENCES 301
16 THE INITIAL VALUE PROBLEM IN GENERAL RELATIVITY
JAMES ISENBERG 303
16.1 OVERVIEW 303
16.2 DERIVATION OF THE EINSTEIN CONSTRAINT AND EVOLUTION EQUATIONS 305
16.3 WELL-POSEDNESS OF THE INITIAL VALUE PROBLEM
FOR EINSTEIN'S EQUATIONS 307
16 A THE CONFORMAL METHOD AND SOLUTIONS OF THE CONSTRAINTS 309
16.5 THE CONFORMAL THIN SANDWICH METHOD 315
16.6 GLUING SOLUTIONS OF THE CONSTRAINT EQUATIONS 316
16.7 COMMENTS ON LONG-TIME EVOLUTION BEHAVIOR 318
REFERENCES 319
17 DYNAMICAL AND HAMILTONIAN FORMULATION OF GENERAL RELATIVITY
DOMENICO GIULINI 323
17.1 OVERVIEW 323
17.2 NOTATION AND CONVENTIONS 32^
17.3 EINSTEIN'S EQUATIONS 325
17.K SPACETIME DECOMPOSITION 328
17.5 CURVATURE TENSORS 333
17.6 DECOMPOSING EINSTEIN'S EQUATIONS 339
17.7 CONSTRAINED HAMILTONIAN SYSTEMS 3KK
17.8 HAMILTONIAN GR 3^9
17.9 ASYMPTOTIC FLATNESS AND CHARGES 35^
17.10 BLACK-HOLE DATA 356
17.11 FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS, PROBLEMS, AND OUTLOOK 359
REFERENCES 360
18 POSITIVE ENERGY THEOREMS IN GENERAL RELATIVITY
SERGIO DAIN 363
18.1 THEOREMS 363
18.2 ENERGY 365
18.3 LINEAR MOMENTUM 372
18. K PROOF 371*
18.5 FURTHER RESULTS AND OPEN PROBLEMS 378
REFERENCES 379
19 CONSERVED CHARGES IN ASYMPTOTICALLY (LOCALLY) ADS SPACETIMES
SEBASTIAN FISCHETTI, WILLIAM KELLY, DONALD MAROLF 381
19.1 ASYMPTOTICALLY LOCALLY ADS SPACETIMES 382
19.2 VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLES AND CHARGES 390
19.3 RELATION TO HAMILTONIAN CHARGES 398
19A THE ALGEBRA OF BOUNDARY OBSERVABLES AND THE ADS/CFT
CORRESPONDENCE KOK
REFERENCES ^05
20
SPACETIME SINGULARITIES
PANKAJ S. JOSHI K09
20.1 SPACE, TIME AND MATTER W9
20.2 WHAT IS A SINGULARITY? ML
20.3 GRAVITATIONAL FOCUSING ^12
20.^ GEODESIC INCOMPLETENESS ^13
20.5 STRONG CURVATURE SINGULARITIES BLK
20.6 CAN WE AVOID SPACETIME SINGULARITIES? ^15
20.7 CAUSALITY VIOLATIONS KL6
20.8 ENERGY CONDITIONS AND TRAPPED SURFACES *FL7
20.9 FUNDAMENTAL IMPLICATIONS AND CHALLENGES K\L
20.10 GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE KL9
20.11 SPHERICAL COLLAPSE AND THE BLACK HOLE M9
20.12 COSMIC CENSORSHIP HYPOTHESIS ^20
20.13 INHOMOGENEOUS DUST COLLAPSE ^22
20.11* COLLAPSE WITH GENERAL MATTER FIELDS 4-23
20.15 NONSPHERICAL COLLAPSE AND NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS ^25
20.16 ARE NAKED SINGULARITIES STABLE AND GENERIC? ^26
20.17 ASTROPHYSICAL AND OBSERVATIONAL ASPECTS ^27
20.18 PREDICTABILITY AND OTHER COSMIC PUZZLES ^29
20.19 A LAB FOR QUANTUM GRAVITY-QUANTUM STARS? ^32
20.20 CONCLUDING REMARKS K3K
REFERENCES K35
21 SINGULARITIES IN COSMOLOGICAL SPACETIMES
BEVERLY K. BERGER A-37
21.1 BASIC CONCEPTS ^37
21.2 SPATIALLY HOMOGENEOUS COSMOLOGICAL SPACETIMES KKL
21.3 SPATIALLY INHOMOGENEOUS COSMOLOGIES ^50
21M SUMMARY ^57
21.5 OPEN QUESTIONS K58
REFERENCES ^58
PART D CONFRONTING RELATIVITY THEORIES WITH OBSERVATIONS
22 THE EXPERIMENTAL STATUS OF SPECIAL AND GENERAL RELATIVITY
ORFEU BERTOLAMI, JORGE PARAMOS W3
22.1 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ^63
22.2 EXPERIMENTAL TESTS OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY K63
22.3 TESTING GENERAL RELATIVITY ^68
REFERENCES ^76
23
OBSERVATIONAL CONSTRAINTS ON LOCAL LORENTZ INVARIANCE
ROBERT T. BLUHM K85
23.1 SPACETIME SYMMETRIES IN RELATIVITY ^86
23.2 STANDARD MODEL EXTENSION ML
23.3 EXPERIMENTAL TESTS OF LORENTZ VIOLATION U99
23 A SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 50^
REFERENCES 505
2K
RELATIVITY IN GNSS
NEIL ASHBY 509
2^.1 THE PRINCIPLE OF EQUIVALENCE 510
2^.2 NAVIGATION PRINCIPLES IN THE GNSS 511
2^.3 ROTATION AND THE SAGNAC EFFECT 511
2HM COORDINATE TIME AND TAI 51^
2^.5 THE REALIZATION OF COORDINATE TIME 516
24-.6 EFFECTS ON SATELLITE CLOCKS 517
2KJ DOPPLER EFFECT 520
2^.8 RELATIVITY AND ORBIT ADJUSTMENTS 521
2^.9 EFFECTS OF EARTH'S QUADRUPOLE MOMENT 521
2^.10 SECONDARY RELATIVISTIC EFFECTS 52^
2^.11 CONCLUSIONS 525
REFERENCES 525
25 QUASI-LOCAL BLACK HOLE HORIZONS
BADRI KRISHNAN 527
25.1 OVERVIEW 527
25.2 SIMPLE EXAMPLES 529
25.3 GENERAL DEFINITIONS AND RESULTS: TRAPPED SURFACES, STABILITY
AND QUASI-LOCAL HORIZONS 537
25.^ THE EQUILIBRIUM CASE: ISOLATED HORIZONS 5M
25.5 DYNAMICAL HORIZONS 551
25.6 OUTLOOK 552
REFERENCES 55^
26 GRAVITATIONAL ASTRONOMY
B. SURYANARAYANA SATHYAPRAKASH 557
26.1 BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATION 557
26.2 WHAT ARE GRAVITATIONAL WAVES? 558
26.3 INTERACTION OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES WITH LIGHT AND MATTER 563
26.^ GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS 566
26.5 GRAVITATIONAL ASTRONOMY 571
26.6 CONCLUSIONS 582
REFERENCES 583
27 PROBING DYNAMICAL SPACETIMES WITH GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
CHRIS VAN DEN BROEK 589
27.1 OVERVIEW 589
27.2 ALTERNATIVE POLARIZATION STATES 592
27.3 PROBING GRAVITATIONAL SELF-INTERACTION 595
27.K TESTING THE NO HAIR THEOREM 603
27.5 PROBING THE LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURE OF SPACETIME 606
27.6 SUMMARY 610
REFERENCES 611
PART E GENERAL RELATIVITY AND THE UNIVERSE
28 EINSTEIN'S EQUATIONS, COSMOLOGY, AND ASTROPHYSICS
PAUL S. WESSON 617
28.1 GRAVITATION TODAY 617
28.2 EINSTEIN'S EQUATIONS 617
28.3 COSMOLOGY 621
28.IT ASTROPHYSICS 62^
28.5 CONCLUSION 626
REFERENCES 627
29 VISCOUS UNIVERSE MODELS
0YVIND GR0N, DIAKO DARIAN 629
29.1 VISCOUS UNIVERSE MODELS 629
29.2 THE STANDARD MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE 630
29.3 VISCOUS FLUID IN AN EXPANDING UNIVERSE 631
29.^ ISOTROPIC, VISCOUS GENERALIZATION OF THE STANDARD UNIVERSE MODEL.
632
29.5 THE DARK SECTOR OF THE UNIVERSE AS A VISCOUS FLUID 63^
29.6 VISCOSITY AND THE ACCELERATED EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE 638
29.7 VISCOUS UNIVERSE MODELS WITH VARIABLE 6 AND A 639
29.8 HUBBLE PARAMETER IN THE QCD ERA
OF THE EARLY UNIVERSE
IN THE PRESENCE OF BULK VISCOSITY 6^0
29.9 VISCOUS BIANCHI TYPE-I UNIVERSE MODELS 6M
29.10 VISCOUS COSMOLOGY WITH CASUAL THERMODYNAMICS 6^6
29.11 SUMMARY 652
REFERENCES 652
30 FRIEDMANN-LEMATTRE-ROBERTSON-WALKER COSMOLOGY
DAVID WANDS
657
30.1 MOTIVATION 657
30.2 DYNAMICAL EQUATIONS AND SIMPLE SOLUTIONS 661
30.3 THE DENSITY PARAMETER Q 66^
30M COSMOLOGICAL HORIZONS 666
30.5 INHOMOGENEOUS PERTURBATIONS 667
30.6 OUTLOOK 669
REFERENCES 670
31 EXACT APPROACH TO INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE MODELS
SERGIO DEL CAMPO 673
31.1 AIMS AND MOTIVATIONS 673
31.2 INFLATION AS A PARADIGM 676
31.3 THE EXACT SOLUTION APPROACH 678
31.A- SCALAR AND TENSOR PERTURBATIONS 682
31.5 HIERARCHY OF SLOW-ROLL PARAMETERS AND FLOW EQUATIONS 685
31.6 A POSSIBLE WAY OF OBTAINING THE GENERATING FUNCTION H( F ) 686
31.7 TWO INTERESTING CASES 687
31.8 CONCLUSION 692
REFERENCES 693
32
COSMOLOGY WITH THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND
TARUN SOURADEEP 697
32.1 CONTEMPORARY VIEW OF OUR COSMOS 697
32.2 THE SMOOTH BACKGROUND UNIVERSE 698
32.3 THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND 701
32.^ PERTURBED UNIVERSE: STRUCTURE FORMATION 702
32.5 CMB ANISOTROPY AND POLARIZATION 703
32.6 CONCLUSION 706
REFERENCES 706
PART F SPACETIME BEYOND EINSTEIN
33 QUANTUM GRAVITY
CLAUS KIEFER 709
33.1 WHY QUANTUM GRAVITY? 709
33.2 MAIN APPROACHES TO QUANTUM GRAVITY 713
33.3 OUTLOOK 720
REFERENCES 721
3K QUANTUM GRAVITY VIA CAUSAL DYNAMICAL TRIANGULATIONS
JAN AMBJ0RN, ANDRZEJ GORLICH, JERZYJURKIEWICZ, RENATE LOLL 723
3^.1 ASYMPTOTIC SAFETY 723
3K.2 A LATTICE THEORY FOR GRAVITY 726
3^.3 THE PHASE DIAGRAM 733
RELATION TO HORAVA-LIFSHITZ GRAVITY 738
3^.5 CONCLUSIONS 739
REFERENCES 739
35 STRING THEORY AND PRIMORDIAL COSMOLOGY
MAURIZIO GASPERINI 7H3
35.1 THE STANDARD BIG BANG COSMOLOGY 7^3
35.2 STRING THEORY 7^5
35.3 STRING COSMOLOGY 7^5
35.^ A HIGHER DIMENSIONAL UNIVERSE 7^7
35.5 BRANE COSMOLOGY 7^8
35.6 CONCLUSION 7^9
REFERENCES 7^9
36
QUANTUM SPACETIME
CARLO ROVELLI 751
36.1 GENERAL IDEAS FOR UNDERSTANDING QUANTUM GRAVITY 751
36.2 TIME 751
36.3 INFINITIES 753
36.^ SPACE 75*T
36.5 QUANTUM SPACETIME 756
REFERENCES 756
37 GRAVITY, GEOMETRY, AND THE QUANTUM
HANNO SAHLMANN 759
37.1 GRAVITY AS A GAUGE THEORY 762
37.2 QUANTUM GEOMETRY 765
37.3 QUANTUM EINSTEIN EQUATIONS 771
37.^ BLACK HOLES 776
37.5 OUTLOOK 778
REFERENCES 779
38 SPIN FOAMS
JONATHAN S. ENGLE 783
38.1 BACKGROUND IDEAS 784-
38.2 SPIN-FOAM MODELS OF QUANTUM GRAVITY 790
38.3 DERIVING THE AMPLITUDE VIA A SIMPLER THEORY 793
38.I* REGGE ACTION AND THE SEMIDASSICAL LIMIT 799
38.5 TWO-POINT CORRELATION FUNCTION FROM SPIN FOAMS 801
38.6 DISCUSSION 80^
REFERENCES 805
39
LOOP
QUANTUM COSMOLOGY
IVAN AGULLO, ALEJANDRO CORICHI 809
39.1 OVERVIEW 809
39.2 QUANTIZATION OF COSMOLOGICAL BACKGROUNDS 812
39.3 INHOMOGENEOUS PERTURBATIONS IN LQC 823
39.^ LQC
EXTENSION OF THE INFLATIONARY SCENARIO 829
39.5 CONCLUSIONS 835
REFERENCES 836
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 8M
ABOUT THE AUTHORS 8^3
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