RELATIVISTIC GRAVITATION AND COMPACT OBJECTS

General Relativity

Research on the physical interpretation and applications of general relativity, with emphasis on collapse, global time and compact objects.

MAIN THEMES

Relativistic gravitation

Relativistic collapse

World-time description of collapse, gravitational freezing and compact-object structure.

Oppenheimer–Snyder dust star

Consistency of the dust-star solution, its coordinate transformation and matching to the external Schwarzschild geometry.

Charged and rotating sources

Parameter dependence of gravitational effects when mass, charge and angular momentum are physically separated.

Metric time and relativistic observables

Work on the interpretation of time standards and on observable effects controlled by gravitational slowing of local physical processes.