, future domain of dependence of a surface S 119
, future horismos of a set 5 122
, future Cauchy horizon of a surface S 120
, chronological future of a point p 117
, (conformal timelike infinity) 40 118
( in Chapter 3) (spacelike infinity) 40 75 77—80 84 118
( in Chapter 3) (spacelike infinity) and coulomb aspects of a field 42
( in Chapter 3) (spacelike infinity), asymptotic metric at 50
( in Chapter 3) (spacelike infinity), first order structure at 41
( in Chapter 3) (spacelike infinity), Higgs field at 68
( in Chapter 3) (spacelike infinity), mass aspect at 59
( in Chapter 3) (spacelike infinity), maxwell field as example 42
( in Chapter 3) (spacelike infinity), momentum at 47
( in Chapter 3) (spacelike infinity), multiple moments and 68
( in Chapter 3) (spacelike infinity), ripples see "Ripple"
( in Chapter 3) (spacelike infinity), second order structure at 41 64
( in Chapter 3) (spacelike infinity), symmetry of see "Spi"
( in Chapter 3) (spacelike infinity), Yang — Mills field at 68
, domain of influence, or causal future, of a point p 117
planes 287—288 312
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planes 287 288 312
see "Hyperheavenly spaces"
-space 22—23 217 225 234 284 250—254 325
-space metrics, Kerr — Schild 257
-space metrics, N heavens 254 257
-space metrics, Plane NV heavens 255 277
-space metrics, pp waves 257
-space metrics, [II or D] [II or D] 276
-space metrics, [III] [any] 277
-space metrics, [III] [N] 275
-space metrics, [N] [-] 254 317
-space metrics, [N] [any] 273
-space metrics, [N] [N] 275 276
-space, angular momentum in 234
-space, associated to a stationary space-time 234
-space, curvature of 23
-space, magnetic dipole in 234
-space, metric on 22
-space, symmetries of 254—262
(Scri) 4 74—77 117 231
(Scri) and the Komar integral 75—77
(Scri), angular momentum at 68
(Scri), characteristic inital value problem on 14
(Scri), conformal freedom on 49
(Scri), conservation law on 15
(Scri), cuts (cross sections) 6 15
(Scri), cuts (cross sections), and the Schwarzschild-to-Kerr transformation 211—220
(Scri), cuts (cross sections), complex 233
(Scri), cuts (cross sections), good 20 21 22 233
(Scri), cuts (cross sections), toroidal 13
(Scri), division into and 5 49 75
(Scri), Killing equation on 17 18
Abraham — Minkowski controversy 491 502—503
Acceleration vector 113
Achronal boundary see "Boundary"
ADM (Arnowitt — Deser — Misner) a la Geroch 62
ADM (Arnowitt — Deser — Misner) momentum 58—59 61 64 65 67 78
AEFANSI (asymptotoically empty and flat at null and spatial infinity) 48 50
Algebraically special field 227 305
Algebraically special space-times 20
Algebraically special space-times with twisting degenerate PND 32—34
Almost complex manifold 222
Almost complex structure 223
Almost quasi-Hermitian structure tensor 223
Ambrose — Singer Theorem 267
Angular momentum and radiation 80—84 382
Angular momentum and Robinson — Trautman slices 84
Angular momentum at 68
Angular momentum in space 234
Angular momentum in asymptotically flat space-times 15
Angular momentum in axisymmetric space-times 86
Angular momentum in Kerr metric 74
Angular momentum in Sommers approach 64
Angular momentum, Bondi 76
Angular momentum, dipole 61
Angular momentum, heavenly 83
Angular momentum, twistor 218 227
Antenna see "Gravitational antenna"
Anti-de Sitter space 151
Anti-de Sitter space and cosmic censorship 187
Anti-de Sitter space, instability of 152
Anti-de Sitter space, instability of Cauchy horizons in 171—172
Anti-de Sitter space, Penrose diagram of 173
Anti-de Sitter space, related to de Sitter space 268
Apparent horizon 146
Asymptotic predictability 145
Asymptotically flat data sets 62 63
Asymptotically flat space-time and twistors 323
Asymptotically flat space-time at spatial infinity 47
Asymptotically flat space-time, angular momentum in 15
Asymptotically flat space-time, momentum vector in 15 55
Asymptotically flat space-time, stationary, containing event horizon 143
Asymptotically simple space-time 4 50
Axisymmetric space-time 85
Axisymmetric space-time, Komar integral in 86
Axisymmetric space-time, most general metric 379
B, boundary of 121
b-boundary see "Boundary"
b-boundary (bundle) 140—141 152—154
b-boundary (bundle), failure of 153
Back-action-evading techniques 407 408
Baer's law 71
Baryon, conservation of 365
Baryon, entropy per 341
Bianchi cosmologies 130 349 353 see
Bianchi cosmologies and Cauchy stability 174—175
Bianchi cosmologies and particle horizon 142
Bianchi identities 10 246 248 299
Bianchi identities as evolution equations 14
Bianchi identities, written in spin coefficient formalism 26—27
big bang see "Universe"
Binary pulsars 483
Birkhoff's theorem 371
Black hole 99 101 106 122 145 182 185—188
Black hole as "seeds" for galaxy formation 355
Black hole, dynamics 145 146
Black hole, explosion 176
Black hole, final state of 378
Black hole, formation of gravitational collapse 360—365
Black hole, intergalactic 348
Black hole, Kerr type 146 379—380
Black hole, merging of 146
Black hole, number in galaxy 362
Black hole, particle creation by 144
Black hole, radiation from colliding 92
BMS (Bondi — Metzner — Sachs) group 17—20 50 75 81
BMS (Bondi — Metzner — Sachs) group and the Spi group 53 60 65 68
BMS (Bondi — Metzner — Sachs) group, generators of 75 76 82
BMS (Bondi — Metzner — Sachs) group, normal subgroups of 19
BMS (Bondi — Metzner — Sachs) group, Penrose approach 16—20
BMS (Bondi — Metzner — Sachs) group, Poincare group as subgroup 19 60 77 81
BMS (Bondi — Metzner — Sachs) group, supertranslations in 19 22 82 232
BMS (Bondi — Metzner — Sachs) group, translation subgroup 20
Boltzmann equation for plasma 511
Bondi angular momentum 78
Bondi coordinates 75
Bondi energy 17 76
Bondi frame 232 233
Bondi mass 15 76
Bondi mass, loss 15
Bondi momentum 67 68
Bondi news 67 68 117
Bondi slicing 81 82
Bondi — Metzner — Sachs group see "BMS"
Boost weight 398
Born-type rigid motion 498
Bose — Einstein distribution 351 463 464 515
Boundary, achronal 121 123 143 146
Boyer's condition 88 93
| Brans — Dicke theory 487 488
Brownian motion in an antenna 404
Buchdahl constraints 318 320
Bundle of linear frames 244 247
Bundle of orthonormal frames 247—248
Bundle of orthonormal frames, covariant exterior derivative on 248
Bundle of orthonormal frames, curvature 2-form on 247
Bundle, principle fiber 247
C- (causal) boundary see "Boundary"
c-boundary (causal) 140 141 152 154 155 164
c-boundary of the future of a space-time point 117
Cahen, Debever, and Defrise bivector formalism 212
Cartan structure equation, first 245
Cartan structure equation, first, in null tetrad 250
Cartan structure equation, second 246
Cauchy development of a surface 135
Cauchy horizon 122 135 138 151 162 167
Cauchy horizon and de Sitter space 171—172
Cauchy horizon and Kerr — Newman metric 188
Cauchy horizon and Reissner — Nordstroem space 152
Cauchy horizon, stability of 167—176
Cauchy problem for the Boltzmann — Einstein system 511
Cauchy surface 38 119 120 131 145 149 167
Cauchy surface and Kerr solution 120
Cauchy surface and Robertson — Walker model 134
Cauchy surface, boosted 56
Cauchy surface, instability of, in anti-de Sitter space 171—172
Cauchy surface, partial 151
Causality and microwave background 148
Causality, horizon 123
Causality, relations 116
Causality, stable 119
Causality, strong 119
Causality, violations 123
Cech cohomology groups 224
Chandrasekhar limit 106 361
Characteristic initial value problem on 14
Characteristic value of gravitational wave amplitude 397
Chemical potential, relativistic see "Thermal potential"
Chern classes 224
Clock, effect of gravitational field on 472—474
Coboundary 306—308
Cochain 306—308
Cohomology group 224 306 307
Collapse in stellar evolution 106
Collapse in stellar evolution and radiation of angular momentum 382
Collapse in stellar evolution and radiation of energy 382 385—388
Collapse in stellar evolution and Schwarzchild radius 106
Collapse in stellar evolution of rotating configurations 379—385
Collapse in stellar evolution, adiabatic 370
Collapse in stellar evolution, conserved quantities in 378
Collapse in stellar evolution, dust approximation 377
Collapse in stellar evolution, equilibrium final states 361
Collapse in stellar evolution, non-spherical 376—379
Collapse in stellar evolution, spherical 365—376
Collapse, pursuit and plunge 380
Complex analytic functions see "Holomorphic functions"
Complex extension see "Complexification"
Complex manifold 221 222 310
Complex Minkowski space 234 285
Complex Minkowski space, related to projective twistors 286
Complex Minkowski space, related to twistor space 285
Complex Minkowski space, world-line in 220
Complex Poincare transformation 210
Complex space-time 310 312
Complex space-time, Lorentz slice of 312
Complex stereographic coordinates 6
Complex substitution 208
Complex Weyl structure 314
Complexification 222
Cone space 21
Conformal curvature tensor see "Weyl tensor"
Conformal freedom on 49
Conformal geometry, strong 19 326
Conformal Killing equation on 17 18
Conformal noninvariance of the gravitational wave equation 428
Conformal structure on a right-flat space-time 313
Conformal vector 41 58 258
Conjugate points 116
Connected-element interferometry 475—476
Conservation law in thermodynamics 512—513
Conservation law of baryons 365
Conservation law of Komar 73
Conservation law on 15
Conserved quantities 59—61 see "Momentum" "Energy"
Conserved quantities and gauge fields 45
Conserved quantities and magnetic charge 45
Conserved quantities in collapse 378
Conserved quantities, ADM 4-momentum 58
Conserved quantities, electric charge 45
Coriolis force 71
Cosmic background radiation 131 136 137 138 148 331
Cosmic background radiation and causality 148
Cosmic background radiation and the energy condition 148
Cosmic background radiation and the existence of particle horizons 142
Cosmic background radiation, anisotropy of 347 349 350
Cosmic background radiation, interaction with gravitational waves 427
Cosmic background radiation, red shift of 342
Cosmic censorship 143 145 162 377
Cosmic censorship and anti-de Sitter space 187
Cosmic censorship, strong 167—176 182 187
Cosmic censorship, weak 176—189
Cosmic censorship, weak, and the positive energy conjecture 187
Cosmic time 367
Cosmic time function 119
Cosmological constant 104 108 330 331
Cosmologies see also "Bianchi cosmology" "Metrics space-times and
Cosmologies, Newtonian 332
Cosmologies, Spatially homogeneous and isotropic 332—342
Courant stability criterion 368
CR (Cauchy — Riemann) structure 310
Creation light cone 122
Crushing singularity 166
Curie principle 506
Curvature see also "Weyl tensor"
Curvature growth 164—167
Curvature of space 23
Curvature, 2-forms 246
Curvature, 2-forms, decomposed 246
Curvature, 2-forms, on bundle of orthonormal frames 248
Curvature, spinor decomposed 246 311
Curvature, tensor decomposed 10
Curvature, tensor decomposed, quantum limitation on measurement 462
Data set, asymptotically flat 62 63
De Sitter space 102 330
de Sitter space, closure density 347
de Sitter space, redshift in 339
de Sitter space, relation to anti-de Sitter 208
de Sitter space, singularity in 101
Debye theory of dielectric relaxation 506
Deceleration parameter 336
Determinant, vanishing of metric 99 100
Deuterium abundance 337
Differentiability of space-times 155—156
Differential structure 47
Dipole angular momentum 61
Dirac large number hypothesis 483—484
Direction pattern of gravitational wave antenna 446—447
Distribution function 511—512
Distribution function of a collisionless gas 422—423
Distribution function, first and second moments of 520
Distribution function, Synge's, and entropy 513—515
Distributional differential geometry 157
Divergence, complex, in spin coefficient formalism 11 see
Dragging of inertial frames 91 376 379 485—487
Eddington — Robertson parameters 470
Edth () 8
Einstein pseudotensor 73
Einstein — Maxwell equations in spin coefficient formalism 24—27
Einstein — Maxwell equations, linearized 417
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