Browsing Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy by Subject "General relativity"

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  • Aspects of fluid dynamics and the fluid/gravity correspondence 

    Thillaisundaram, Ashok (University of CambridgeDAMTPTrinity, 2017-09-01)
    This thesis considers various extensions to the fluid/gravity correspondence as well as problems fundamental to the study of fluid dynamics. The fluid/gravity correspondence is a map between the solutions of the Navier-Stokes ...

  • Aspects of higher dimensional Einstein theory and M-theory 

    Godazgar, Mohammad Mahdi (University of CambridgeDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, 2012-10-09)
    This thesis contains two main themes. The first is Einstein's theory of general relativity in higher dimensions, while the second is M-theory. The first part of the thesis concerns the use of classification techniques ...

  • Constrained dynamics and higher derivative systems in modified gravity 

    Chen, Tai-jun (University of CambridgeDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, 2015-06-09)
    In this thesis, higher derivative theories and constrained dynamics are investigated in detail. In the first part of the thesis, we discuss how the Ostrogradski instability emerges in non-degenerate higher derivative ...

  • New approaches to higher-dimensional general relativity 

    Durkee, Mark N. (University of CambridgeDepartment of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, 2011-06-07)
    This thesis considers various aspects of general relativity in more than four spacetime dimensions. Firstly, I review the generalization to higher dimensions of the algebraic classification of the Weyl tensor and the ...