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English Pages viii, 236 p. : [247] Year 1985.
Table of contents :
List of Contributors vii
Foreword by V.V. Narlikar ix
Preface by the Editors xi
1.(p.1) A. Ashtekar and K.S. Narain
Generation of a Mass-gap by Restoration of Broken
Symmetry
2.(p.15) S. Banerji, T.K. Das and D. R. Mandal Scalar Particle Energy Levels Bound by a Schwarzschild Black Hole
3.(p.23) B. Bertotti
Long Range Prospects for Low Frequency Gravitational
Wave Detection
4.(p.33) W.B. Bonnor
Curves with Null Normals in Minkowski Space-time
5.(p.48) B. Carter
The Canonical Treatment of Heat Conduction and Superfluidity in Relativistic Hydrodynamics
6.(p.63) Y. Choquet-Bruhat
Recent Proofs of the Positivity of Gravitational Energy
7.(p.72) N. Dadhich
Some Features of the Kerr Geometry
8.(p.85) H.G. Dalal and B.K. Datta
Some Theorems on Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics
9.(p.92) G.F.R. Ellis and D.R. Matravers
Spatial Homogeneity and the Size of The Universe
10.(p.109) B.R. Iyer and C.V. Vishveshwara General Relativistic Aspects of Neutron Star Models
11.(p.128) P.S. Joshi
Topological Properties of Certain Physically Significant
Subsets of Spacetimes
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12.(p.137) J. Krishna Rao and M. Annapurna
Static Gaseous Spheres in General Relativity
13.(p.147) M. Nagaraj
Sp(n)-Fields in General Relativity
14.(p.164) H. Nariai and H. Ishihara
On the de Sitter and Nariai Solutions in General Relativity and Their Extension in Higher Dimensional Spacetime
15.(p.171) J.V. Narlikar
Some Conceptual Problems in General Ralativity and
Cosmology
16.(p.184) A. Papapetrou
Formation of a Singularity and Causality
17.(p.192) A.R. Prasanna
Equations of Motion for a Radiating Charged Particle in Electromagnetic Fields on Curved Space-time
18.(200) M.M. Som
Statip.c Electromagnetic Field Coupled Non-minimally to
Gravity
19.(p.207) M.M. Som
Homogeneous and Isotropic Cosmology with Conformally
Invariant Scalar Field
20.(p.211) P. Szekeres
Singularities of the Raychaudhuri Kind
21.(p.222) J.A. Wheeler
Gravitational Collapse of a Gravitational Wave via Geon
Transition State
(p.229)Curriculum Vitae of P.C. Vaidya
(p.230)List of Publications by P.C. Vaidya
(p.233)Books by P.C. Vaidya
(p.234)Curriculum Vitae of A.K. Raychaudhuri
(p.235)List of Publications by A.K. Raychaudhuri
(p.236)Books by A.K. Raychaudhuri