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OverviewThis volume is dedicated to Jiri Bi ak on the occasion of his 60th birthday. The authors are his former students who currently work in the fields of general relativity, astrophysics, theoretical physics and cosmology. Unlike in traditional Festschrifts with many short contributions, they present several comprehensive surveys and elaborate original works. The subjects range from the motion of stars in galactic nuclei to quantum mechanics on a boundary, and include current topics such as cosmological perturbations, effects of a repulsive cosmological constant, discs around black holes and gravitational waves. An unconventional introductory essay revives Prague's inspirations as personified by Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Christian Doppler, Ernst Mach, Albert Einstein and others.Contents: Slowly Rotating Voids in Cosmology and Mach's Principle (T Dolezel) The Role of a Repulsive Cosmological Constant in Astrophysical Processes (Z Stuchlik) Stellar Dynamics in a Galactic Centre Surrounded by an Accretion Disc (V Karas et al.) Towards Gravitating Discs Around Stationary Black Holes (O Semerak) Optical Geometry, Inertial Forces, and Embedding Diagrams (S Hledik) Appearance of Approximated Models of Rotating Neutron Stars (T Ledvinka) Exact Impulsive Gravitational Waves in Spacetimes of Constant Curvature (J Podolsky) On the Spinning C-Metric (V Pravda & A Pravdova) Twisting Minkowski Plane into a Cone (V Balek) The Semiclassical Einstein Equations (T Kopf) Boundary Quantum Mechanics (P Krtous) Readership: Graduate students, academics and researchers in theoretical physics, astrophysics, astronomy and cosmology. Full Product DetailsAuthor: M Zofka , Semerak O , J Podolsky , O SemerakPublisher: World Scientific Publishing Company Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company ISBN: 9781299604469ISBN 10: 1299604463 Pages: 346 Publication Date: 01 January 2002 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Electronic book text Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |