Some recent progress in classical general relativity

DOI10.1063/1.533332MaRDI QIDQ2738029zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Felix Finster, Joel Smoller, Shing-Tung Yau

Publication date 30 August 2001

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0001064, http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/70615

zbMATH Keywords

black holeEinstein-Dirac-Maxwell equationspositive mass conjecture

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: In this short survey paper, we discuss certain recent results in classical gravity. Our main attention is restricted to two topics: the positive mass conjecture and its extensions to the case with horizons, including the Penrose conjecture (Part I), and the interaction of gravity with other force fields and quantum-mechanical particles (Part II).

Review text

Part I presents some recent progress in classical general relativity, and main attention is restricted to the positive mass conjecture and to its extension. The interaction of gravity with other force fields and quantum-mechanical particles are studied in Part II. Particle like solutions and the case of nonexistence of black hole solutions for the Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell equations are studied. Using Chandrasekhar's method, the author obtained the extensions to the axisymmetric case. The general class of axisymmetric black-hole geometries is obtained. This paper is certainly an important contribution to general relativity theory.

Recommendations

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1836533
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2045920
• Classical and quantum general relativity: A new paradigm
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 795190
• Recent advances in general relativity. Essays in honor of Ted Newman
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 742839
• Geometric foundations of classical general relativity theory
• Some remarks on mathematical general relativity theory
• General relativity today
• Old and new hyperbolic approaches in general relativity

Cites work

• A mathematical theory of gravitational collapse
• A new proof of the positive energy theorem.
• Definition of center of mass for isolated physical systems and unique foliations by stable spheres with constant mean curvature
• Einstein equations in the null quasispherical gauge
• Examples of naked singularity formation in the gravitational collapse of a scalar field
• Existence of infinitely-many smooth, static, global solutions of the Einstein/Yang-Mills equations
• Non-existence of black hole solutions for a spherically symmetric, static Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell system
• Non-existence of time-periodic solutions of the Dirac equation in a Reissner- Nordström black hole background
• Nonexistence of time‐periodic solutions of the Dirac equation in an axisymmetric black hole geometry
• Particle creation by black holes
• Particle-like solutions of the Einstein-Dirac-Maxwell equations
• Proof of the positive mass theorem. II
• Spherically symmetric static SU(2) Einstein–Yang–Mills fields
• The existence of a black hole due to condensation of matter
• The formation of black holes and singularities in spherically symmetric gravitational collapse
• The structure and uniqueness of generalized solutions of the spherically symmetric Einstein-scalar equations

Cited in

(3)

• A2: mathematical relativity and other progress in classical gravity theory -- a session report
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6116018 (Why is no real title available?)
• A spatially homogeneous and isotropic Einstein-Dirac cosmology

This page was built for publication: Some recent progress in classical general relativity

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2738029)