Black Holes are regions of space-time where the gravitational field is so strong that not even light can escape. There has been much written on black holes, however in most cases they are treated as isolated objects. The author has found a number of cases in which the interaction of a black hole with another strong-field system (such as the background universe or another black hole) could be treated analytically. This includes using the powerful method of matched asymptotic expansions. In this book the author considers these wider ranging problems and examples for the first time. This book will be widely read by all those working in gravitation, and PhD students in mathematical physics.
Contents:
Introduction; Black holes; Dynamics of a black hole in a
background universe; Interaction of two black-holes in the
slow-motion limit; Gravitational radiation from high-speed
black-hole encounters; Axisymmetric black-hole collisions at
speed of light; perturbation treatment of gravitational
radiation; Axisymmetric black-hole collisions at the speed
of light: reduction in two independent variables and
calculation of the second-order news function; Axisymmetric
black-hole collisions at the speed of light: gravitational
radiation - results and conclusions; Conclusion;
References.
Oxford Mathematical Monographs
294
pp, 50 line figures
Clarendon Press July
1996
0-19-851479-4
£45.00 Hardback
Suitable
for: Graduate students of mathematical physics; researchers
in gravitation
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