Conformal Methods in General Relativity

List of symbols; Preface; 1. Introduction; Part I. Geometric Tools: 2. Differential Geometry; 3. Spacetime spinors; 4. Space spinors; 5. Conformal Geometry; Part II. General Relativity and Conformal Geometry: 6. Conformal extensions of exact solutions; 7. Asymptotic simplicity; 8. The conformal Einstein field equations; 9. Matter models; 10. Asymptotics; Part III. Methods of PDE Theory: 11. The conformal constraint equations; 12. Methods of the theory of hyperbolic differential equations; 13. Hyperbolic reductions; 14. Causality and the Cauchy problem in General Relativity; Part IV. Applications: 15. De Sitter-like spacetimes; 16. Minkowski-like spacetimes; 17. Anti-de Sitter-like spacetimes; 18. Characteristic problems for the conformal field equations; 19. Static solutions; 20. Spatial infinity; 21. Perspectives; References; Index.

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