Cosmological and black hole apparent horizons. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Valerio Faraoni.
• Authors: Faraoni, Valerio
• Contents: Stationary black holes in General Relativity -- Introduction -- Stationary black holes of General Relativity -- Schwarzschild spacetime -- Reissner-Nordström metric -- Kerr spacetime -- Kerr-Newman metric -- Energy conditions -- Conclusions -- Problems -- Horizons -- Introduction -- Null geodesic congruences and trapped surfaces -- Rindler horizons for accelerated observers in Minkowski spacetime -- Event horizons -- Killing horizons -- Apparent horizons -- Trapping horizons -- Isolated and dynamical horizons -- Kodama vector and surface gravity -- Surface gravities -- Spherical symmetry -- Rindler horizons revisited -- Conclusions -- Problems -- Cosmological horizons -- Introduction -- 3.2 Hyperspherical coordinates for FLRW space -- Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates for de Sitter space -- Painlev ́e-Gullstrand and Schwarzschild-like coordinates for k = 0 FLRW space -- Schwarzschild-like coordinates for general FLRW spaces -- Painlevé-Gullstrand coordinates for general FLRW spaces -- Congruences of radial null geodesics in FLRW space -- Horizons in FLRW space -- Dynamics of cosmological horizons -- Another notation -- de Sitter space -- Thermodynamics of cosmological horizons in General Relativity -- Thermodynamics of de Sitter space -- Thermodynamics of apparent/trapping horizons in FLRW space -- Conclusions -- Problems -- Inhomogeneities in cosmological "backgrounds" in Einstein theory -- Introduction -- Schwarzschild-de Sitter-Kottler spacetime -- McVittie solution -- Charged McVittie spacetime -- An application to the quantization of black hole areas -- Generalized McVittie spacetimes -- Sultana-Dyer spacetime -- Husain-Martinez-Nuñez spacetime -- Fonarev solutions -- Other analytic cosmological black hole solutions of the Einstein Equations -- Conclusions -- Cosmological inhomogeneities in alternative gravity -- Introduction -- Brans-Dicke cosmological black holes -- f (R) cosmological black holes -- Conclusions -- A Appendix -- A.1 Painlevé-Gullstrand coordinates for general spherically symmetric metrics -- A.2 Kodama vector in FLRW space -- A2.1 Pseudo-Painlev ́e-Gullstrand coordinates -- A.2.2 Comoving coordinates -- References -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 199 pages), color illustrations
• Subjects: 523.01; Horizon; Cosmology; Black holes (Astronomy); Black holes (Astronomy); Cosmology; Horizon; Astrophysics; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physical Sciences & Mathematics; Physics; Cosmology; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory; Mathematical Physics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319192406; 3319192396; 9783319192390
• Related ISBNs: 331919240X; 9783319192390
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed July 9, 2015).
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