Relativity and Gravitation

In early April 1911 Albert Einstein arrived in Prague to become full professor of theoretical physics at the German part of Charles University. It was there, for the first time, that he concentrated primarily on the problem of gravitation. Before he left Prague in July 1912 he had submitted the paper Relativität und Gravitation: Erwiderung auf eine Bemerkung von M. Abraham in which he remarkably anticipated what a future theory of gravity should look like.At the occasion of the Einstein-in-Prague centenary an international meeting was organized under a title inspired by Einstein's last paper from the Prague period: "Relativity and Gravitation, 100 Years after Einstein in Prague". The main topics of the conference included: classical relativity, numerical relativity, relativistic astrophysics and cosmology, quantum gravity, experimental aspects of gravitation and conceptual and historical issues.The conference attracted over 200 scientists from 31 countries, among them a number of leading experts in the field of general relativity and its applications. This volume includes abstracts of the plenary talks and full texts of contributed talks and articles based on the posters presented at the conference. These describe primarily original results of the authors. Full texts of the plenary talks are included in the volume "General Relativity, Cosmology and Astrophysics--Perspectives 100 Years after Einstein in Prague", eds. J. Biák and T. Ledvinka, published also by Springer Verlag.

Over 100 scientists from 31 countries contributed in the fields of classical and quantum gravity, relativistic astrophysics, cosmology and experimental gravity Presents refereed contributions from leaders in the field Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Abstracts of Plenary Talks.- Part I Classical General Relativity.- Exact Hairy Black Holes.- Black Hole Formation from a Complete Past for the Einstein-Vlasov System.- How to Measure Deviation from the Kerr Initial Data Recent Progress.- Hidden Symmetries of the Dirac Equation in Curved Space-time.- Geometrostatics: the Geometry of Static Space-times.- The Gravitational Equation in Higher Dimensions.- Geometric Inequalities for Black Holes.- Scalar Fields on anti-de Sitter Background.- Canonical Super energy Tensors in General Relativity: a Reappraisal.- Einstein's Prague Field Equation of 1912 Another Perspective.- Source Integrals of Asymptotic Multipole Moments.- Geodesic Equations and Algebro-Geometric Methods.- Illusory Horizons, Thermodynamics and Holography Inside Black Holes.- Shape Dynamics.- Superradiance or Total Reflection?.- Non-Linear Effects in Non-Kerr Spacetimes.- The Conformal Einstein Field Equations for Trace-free Perfect Fluids.- Canonical Gravity, Non-Inertial Frames, Relativistic Metrology and Dark Matter.- Gravomagnetic Solenoids.- Exact Dynamical AdS Black Holes and Wormholes with a Klein-Gordon Field.- 2.5PN Kick from Black-Hole Binaries in Circular Orbit: Nonspinning Case.- A Reference for the Covariant Hamiltonian Boundary Term.- On a Five-Dimensional Version of the Goldberg-Sachs Theorem.- Gravitomagnetism: From Einstein's 1912 Paper to the Satellites LAGEOS and Gravity Probe B.- Evolution of the Einstein Equations to Future Null Infinity.- Increase of Black Hole Entropy in Lanczos-Lovelock Gravity.- On the Stability Operator for MOTS and the 'Core' of Black Holes.- The Twin Paradox in Static Spacetimes and Jacobi Fields.- Geodesic Deviation in Kundt Spacetimes of any Dimension.- A Class of Conformal Curves on Spherically Symmetric Spacetimes.- Black Hole Collisions in Asymptotically de Sitter Spacetimes.- On the Effects of Rotating Gravitational Waves.- Variations on Spacetimes with Boost-Rotation Symmetry.- On the Existence and Properties of Helically Symmetric Systems.- Probing the Spacetime Structure through Dynamics.- Analytical Conformal Compactification of Schwarzschild Spacetime.- Solutions in the 2+1 Null Surface Formulation.- Electric and Magnetic Weyl Tensors in Higher Dimensions.- Phase Structure of Five Dimensional Black Di-ring.- The Null Geodesics in the Black Saturn Spacetime.- Conformal Symmetries on the Horizon and Black Hole Entropy in Generic Dimensions.- Finsler Spacetimes and Gravity.- Lagrangian Analysis of 'Trivial' Symmetries in Models of Gravity.- Quasi-normal Frequencies, Horizon Area Spectra and Multi-horizon Spacetimes.- Asymptotically AdS Spacetimes and Isometric Embeddings.- Part II Cosmology and Relativistic Astrophysics.- A Cosmological Concordance Model with Particle Creation.- From 'Nothing' to Inflation and Back Again.- Quasinormal modes from a naked singularity.- Tracing a Relativistic Milky Way Within the RAMOD Measurement Protocol.- Is There a Flatness Problem in Classical Cosmology?.- Cosmology in f (R) Exponential Gravity.- Regular and Chaotic Motion in General Relativity: The Case of a Massive Magnetic Dipole.- The Fitting Problem in a Lattice Universe.- Hair of Astrophysical Black Holes.- Backreaction Effects on the Luminosity-Redshift Relation in Inhomogeneous Cosmology.- Scalar Averaging in Szekeres Models.- On the Interplay Between Radial and Angular Reflection Emissivity from the Black Hole Accretion Disc.- Critical-Curve Topologies of Triple Gravitational Lenses.- Modified Gravity Theories and Dark Matter Models Tested by Galactic Rotation Curves.- Averaging Inside the LRS Family.- Effect of Magnetic Fields on Equatorial Circular Orbits in Kerr Spacetimes.- Exotic (Dark) Eigenspinors of the Charge Conjugation Operator and Cosmological Applications.- On Motion of the Magellanic Clouds in the Milky Way Gravitational Field.- Geodesic Chaos in Perturbed Black-Hole Fields.- Gravitational Waveforms for Black Hole Binaries with Unequal Masses.- Part III Quantum Fields and Quantum Gravity.- Phenomenology of Quantum Gravity and its Possible Role in Neutrino Anomalies.- Loop Quantum Cosmology: Anisotropy and Singularity Resolution.- Tensor Operators in Loop Quantum Gravity.- Probability Distributions for Quantum Stress Tensors in Two and Four Dimensions.- Spontaneous Breaking of Lorentz Symmetry for Canonical Gravity.- The Transfer Matrix in Four-dimensional Causal Dynamical Triangulations.- Plane Gravitational Waves and Flat Space in Loop Quantum Gravity.- Unruh-DeWitt Detector on the BTZ Black Hole.- On the Observability of Quantum-Gravitational Effects in the Cosmic.- Microwave Background.- Quantum Singularities in Conformally Static Spacetimes.- Granularity in Angle: Observability in Scattering.- Signature Change in Loop Quantum Cosmology.- Quantum Fields in Gravity.- Classical and Quantum Scattering in Impulsive Backgrounds.- Effective Vacuum Bianchi IX in Loop Quantum Cosmology.- Coupling Dimers to CDT to Obtain Higher Order Multi critical Behavior.- A Sheet of Graphene Quantum Field in a Discrete Curved Space.