Proceedings of the First Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity : organized and held at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, and Istituto di fisica teorica, University of Trieste, 7-12 July 1975

Cover Dedication Title Date-line Preface CONTENTS List of Participants Photo of participants 1 Quantization of General Relativity - Chairman: Abdus Salam 1.1 An Introduction to Covariant Quantization of Gravitation (P. Van Nieuwenhuizen) 1.2 The Chronos Principle and Field Interactions (D. Christodoulou) 1.3 General Relativity '{a} la String: a Progress Report (T. Regge and С. Teitelboim) 1.4 Geometric Quantization and General Relativity (J.-M.Souriau) Communications by: С. Aragone, L. Halpern, A. Inomata, M. Pilati and С. Teitelboim, W. Szczyrba, J. Tarski GRAVITY IN THE RAY GAUGE (С. Aragone) AN APPROACH TO A UNIFIED TREATMENT OF ELECTROMAGNETIC AND GRAVITATIONAL THEORY EMERGING FROM THE COVARIANT DIRAC EQUATION (L. Halpern) ON STRONG-GRAVITY (A. Inomata) REMARKS ON THE MANY-TIME CANONICAL QUANTIZATION OF GRAVITATION (M. Pilati and С. Teitelboim) A GEOMETRIC CONSTRUCTION OF THE SYMPLECTIC FORM IN GENERAL RELATIVITY (W. Szczyrba) INTERACTIONS ON THF EXTENDED CONFORMAL SPACE-TIME (J. Tarski) 2 Space-time Structures - Chairman: H. Sato 2.1 Space-time Singularities (R. Penrose) 2.2 H Space - The Manifold of Complex Asymptotically Shear-Free Light Cones (E. Newman) 2.3 Conformal Structure - Spacelike Infinity (B. Schmidt) 2.4 Maximal Surfaces in Closed and Open Space-times (D. Brill) Communications by: P. Hajiсек, С. Lopez, E.W.Mielke, T. Nakamura and H. Sato, A. Quale, A. Tomimatsu and H. Sato A NECESSARY CONDITION FOR KILLING HORIZON TO BE EVENT HORIZON (P. Hajiсек) GRAVITATIONAL ENERGY FROM A QUADRATIC LAGRANGIAN WITH TORSION (С. Lopez) POSITIVE ENERGY IN $U_4$ THEORY (E.W.Mielke) ABSORPTION OF MASSIVE SCALAR FIELD BY A CHARGED BLACK HOLE (T. Nakamura and H. Sato) Inertia and Gravity in General Relativity (A. Quale) METRIC SOLUTIONS OF SPINNING MASSES (A. Tomimatsu and H. Sato) 3 Singularities in General Relativity - Chairman: J. Ehlers 3.1 On the General Solution of Einstein Equations Near the Cosmological Singularity (E.M. Lifshitz) 3.2 Spatially Homogeneous Universes (A. Taub) 3.3 The Vacuum Black Hole Uniqueness Theorem (B. Carter) 3.4 ON GRAVITATION IN MICROPHYSICS: IS EINSTEIN'S FORM OF GENERAL RELATIVITY STILL VALID FOR CLASSICAL FIELDS WITH SPIN? (P. von der Heyde and F.W. Hehl) Communications by: N.D. Hari Dass and V. Radhakrishnan, B. Luk'{a}cs and Z. P'{e}rjes, A.R. Prasanna, D. Wilkins THE HULSE-TAYLOR PULSAR AND GRAVITATIONAL SPIN PRECESSION (N.D. Hari Dass and V. Radhakrishnan) TIME-DEPENDENT MAXWELL FIELDS IN STATIONARY GEOMETRY (B. Luk'{a}cs and Z. P'{e}rjes) SOLUTIONS OF EINSТЕIN-СARTAN EQUATIONS (A.R. Prasanna) ROTATING MODEL FOR RADIATION AND RADIATION-REACTION FORCE OF A FREELY-FALLING CHARGE (D. Wilkins) Round Table on Perturbation Techniques - Chairman: F. Zerilli, Participants: S.L. Detweiler, M.D. Johnston, M. Peterson and R. Ruffini, J. Weinstein ELECTROMAGNETIC PERTURBATIONS OF A ROTATING BLACK HOLE (S.L. Detweiler) SPIN COEFFICIENTS AND ELECTROMAGNETISM IN REISSNER-NORDSTROM SPACETIME (M.D. Johnston) Perturbations of an Analytic Background Metric (M. Peterson and R. Ruffini) FORCED PERTURBATIONS OF THE REISSNER-NORDSTROM GEOMETRY (J. Weinstein) 4 Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics - Chairman: S. Chandrasekhar 4.1 Shock Waves in Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics (A. Lichnerowicz) 4.2 On Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics Processes in the Fields of Black Holes (R. Ruffini) 4.3 Magnetohydrodynamics Near a Black Hole (J.R. Wilson) 4.4 Coupling of High Frequency Gravitational and Electromagnetic Waves (Y. Choquet-Bruhat) Communications by: R.S. Hanni, W. Kundt, H. Quintana PLASMA HORIZONS OF A CHARGED BLACK HOLE (R.S. Hanni) MAGNETIC BLACK HOLES (W. Kundt) RELATIVISTIС ELASTICITY APPLIED TO NEUTRON STARS (H. Quintana) 5 Particle Creation in Strong Gravitational Fields - Chairman: B. Bertotti 5.1 Quantum Processes Near Black Holes (G.W. Gibbons) 5.2 Klein Paradox and Vacuum Polarization (T. Damour) 5.3 Classical and Quantum States in Black Hole Physics (N. Deruelle) 5.4 Quantum Effects in Cosmology and Black and White Hole Physics (A.A. Starobinsky) Communications by: P.C. Aichelburg, P.C.W. Davies, L.R. Davis, U.H.Gerlach, H. Rumpf, W.G. Unruh, W.T. Zaumen A REMARK ON RADIATION DAMPING (P.C. Aichelburg) PARTICLE CREATION AND GEOMETRY (P.C.W. Davies) Pair Production by Photons in a Constant Electromagnetic Field (L.R. Davis) EFFECT OF ZERO POINT FLUCTUATIONS ON THE FORMATION OF A BLACK HOLE (U.H.Gerlach) COVARIANT TREATMENT OF PARTICLE CREATION IN CURVED SPACE-TIME (H. Rumpf) PARTICLE DETECTORS AND BLACK HOLES (W.G. Unruh) SPONTANEOUS DISCHARGE OF KERR-NEWMANN BLACK HOLES (W.T. Zaumen) 6 Experimental Results on Gravitational Theories - Chairman: W. Fairbank 6.1 Theoretical Significance of Present Day Gravity Experiments (K. Nordtvedt, Jr.) 6.2 Gravitation, Relativity and Precise Experimentation (C.W.F. Everitt) 6.3 Observational Cosmology (R.B. Partridge) Communications by: F.I. Cooperstock and G.J.G. Junevicus, F. Occhionero A NEW RELATIVISTIС THEORY OF GRAVITATION (F.I. Cooperstock and G.J.G. Junevicus) JEANS INSTABILITY IN LEMA^{I}TRE UNIVERSES (F. Occhionero) Author Index Subject Index