Asymptotic behavior of mass and spacetime geometry : proceedings of the conference held at the Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA, October 17-21, 1983

The positive energy theorem and its extensions....Pages 1-21 Mass and angular momentum at the quasi-local level in general relativity....Pages 23-30 The positive mass theorem and black holes....Pages 31-40 Exotic differentiable structures on Euclidean 4-space....Pages 41-43 A new approach to the vacuum Einstein equation....Pages 45-55 The existence of maximal surfaces in asymptotically flat spacetimes....Pages 57-60 Causality of classical supergravity....Pages 61-84 A gauge invariant index theorem for asymptotically flat manifolds....Pages 85-94 On the boundary conditions for gravitational and gauge fields at spatial infinity....Pages 95-109 Metric fluctuations and the entropy of black holes....Pages 111-122 The numerical characteristic initial value problem....Pages 123-142 Time-asymmetric initial data for n black holes....Pages 143-153 The gravitational Hamiltonian....Pages 155-163 Twistors, asymptotic symmetries and conservation laws at null and spatial infinity....Pages 165-176 Two-surface twistors and conformal embedding....Pages 177-184 Remarks on the cosmic censorship conjecture....Pages 185-196 On some (con-)formal properties of Einstein's field equations and their consequences....Pages 197-208