General relativity

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Authors K. P. Tod

Publication date 7 January 2003

zbMATH Keywords

cosmic censorship hypothesisEinstein equationsgeneral relativityLorentzian splitting theoremsPenrose inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02)

Review text

This article gives a comprehensive review of current mathematical problems in general relativity. The pecularities of Lorentzian geometry with respect to Riemannian are pointed out. A brief discussion with a collection of the relevant literature of the conformal structure of the spacetimes, positive mass theorems and singularity theorems is presented. In addition topological issues and Lorentzian splitting theorems are discussed. An important question are the existence and the uniqueness of solutions to the Einstein equations, black-hole uniqueness theorems, the cosmic censorship hypothesis and the Penrose inequality for black-holes.NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 0961.00021].

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