EDITORIAL INFORMATION

The Spanish Relativity Meeting-93 Relativity in General was organized by the Departamento de Física of the Oviedo University and the Département d'Astrophysique Relativiste et Cosmologie of the Paris Observatory and held in Salas, Asturias, Spain on September 7 to 10, 1993. The conference covered a broad range of topics in Classical Relativity, Quantum Gravity and their applications in Astrophysics, Cosmology and others.

This volume contains the contributions to the Meeting and is divided into two parts. The first part contains the invited lectures. The second part is concerned with other communications.

(Extracted from the foreword, by J. Díaz Alonso and M. Lorente Páramo, editors).

GENERAL TABLE OF CONTENTS

-Contents.

-Foreword.

-I. Invited Lectures.

-Electromagnetic and Gravitational Shock Waves.
-Gravitational Radiation from Supernovae and Related Objects.
-A Short Review of the Virgo Experiment.
-Coalescing Compact Binaries and General Relativity Tests.
-Born's Group and Generalized Isometries.
-Exact Solutions Slightly Different from the Schwarzschild Metric.
-Justification and Implementation of the Non-Dispersive Model for Wiggly Strings.
-String Variations on Kaluza-Klein Cosmology.
-Low Energy Effective Actions Using Geodesic Variables.
-Quantization of Spin 2 Theories.
-Scale Relativity: First Steps Toward a Field Theory.
-Action-at-a-Distance Formulation of Field Theories for Atomic Nuclei.
-Radio Astronomy in Cosmology and General Relativity.
-Huygens and Relative Motion.

-II. Communications.

-Black Hole Horizons in Numerical Relativity.
-The Virial Theorem in General Relativity.
-TTC: Tensor Calculus with Mathematica.
-Nonlinear Maxwell Equations.
-A Numerical Way to Handle Multidimensional Relativistic Hydrodynamics.
-Hamiltonian Formulation for Relativistic Fluids.
-Time Delay between Radio and Gamma-Ray Pulsed Emissions of the Crab Pulsar.
-Gravitational Radiation from Eccentric Binary Systems.
-A Quasi-Stationary State of Binary Orbits of Collapsed Objects: Evolution by Gravitational Radiation.
-The Effects of Light Bending in Weak Gravitational Systems.
-Godunov-Type Methods Applied to General-Relativistic Collpase of Spherical Configurations.
-Some Considerations on L-Rigidity Newtonian Limit.
-Causal Sets and the Closeness of Lorentzian Manifolds.
-New Metric Referring to a Rotating Charged Mass.
-Screening in Relativistic Dense Matter.
-Wave Packet Quantization in Flat Space with a Moving Mirror.
-Surface Densities in General Relativity.
-Gauge Invariance of Linear Lagrangians.
-Simultaneity and Countable Holonomy Groups.
-Nonlocal Lagrangians and Hamiltonian Formalism.
-Quantum Processes and the Foundations of Relational Theories of Space and Time.
-Perfect-Fluid Solutions with Conformal Killing Vector Fields.
-Black Holes without Singularities.
-Zones of Dynamical Instability for Rotating String Loops.
-Exact Solutions with More than One Type of Energy-Momentum Tensor.
-Gravitational Effects on Thick Bubbles.
-The Rigid Rotator Revisited: A Classical Model of the Electron.
-Stability of Space-Time Singularities.
-Can the Inflation Isotropise the Universe?
-Variation of the Speed of Light in an Expanding Cosmological Model.
-Is Radiation Damping Connected with the Expansion of Closed Universes?
-Back Reaction in Weakly Inhomogeneous Cosmologies.
-Some Self-Similar Inhomogeneous Cosmological Models in General Relativity.
-Spots on the Microwave Background.
-Nonlinear Evolution of Cosmological Structures. The One-Dimensional Case.
-New Cosmologies of the Kerr-Schild Type.
-COBRAS- Cosmic Background Radiation Anisotropy Satellite.
-Weyl-Cartan Model for Cosmology Before mass Generation.

-List of Participants.

OUR REVIEW

More than ninety speakers participated in this important symposium, most of them being from Spain. Their works appear now in this book, whose compiling purpose appears to be at the very least quite commendable, given the scarcity of works of this kind, even more so because it is a useful publication in order to divulge the work of many researchers in Spain whose opportunities to publish a book always tend to be rather scarce indeed, as a general rule.

This book then, appears to be quite convenient. Its contents are well balanced and very clear too, ranging from different aspects of Relativistic Astrophysics, Gravitational Radiation and Numerical Relativity, Cosmology and other questions related to the General and the Special Relativity.

This certainly isn't a book aimed at the general public. It actually is intended for the professionals in these fields, advanced university students and members of other scientific areas who wish to keep themselves updated about what is currently happening in Relativity.