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Aspects of quasilocal angular momentum / Some remarks on the quasi-local mass / Quasi-local mass for "large" spheres / Conserved quantities as action variations / A $3+1$ formulation of Einstein self-duality / Quantum gravity in the self-dual representation / Superspace in the self-dual representation of quantum gravity / Self-dual and anti-self-dual Hermitian metrics on compact complex surfaces / Instantons on the quaternionic Siegel space / Gauge theories for fields of spin-one and spin-two / Einstein geometry and hyperbolic equations / The well-posedness of Rosen's field equations / Dynamics of quadratic Lagrangians in gravity: Fairchild's theory / Stability in dissipative relativistic fluid theories / The Hamiltonian formulation of classical field theory / The Ricci flow on surfaces / Curvature and compact spacelike surfaces in $4$-dimensional spacetimes / Spacetime singularities from high matter densities / Metric singularity phenomena in pseudo-Riemannian geometry / Covariant quantization of dynamical systems with constraints / Problems on diffeomorphisms arising from quantum gravity / Initial value decomposition of the spacetime diffeomorphism group / Inclusion of fermions in the wave function of the universe / Gauge symmetries of string field theory / Twistors and strings / Roger Penrose -- D. Christodoulou and S.-T. Yau -- William T. Shaw -- Rafael D. Sorkin -- Abhay Ashtekar -- Lee Smolin -- Ted Jacobson -- Charles P. Boyer -- F. J. Flaherty -- Robert M. Wald -- S. Klainerman -- R. J. Knill and A. P. Whitman -- Victor Szczyrba -- William A. Hiscock and Lee Lindblom -- Jerrold E. Marsden -- Richard S. Hamilton -- Demir N. Kupeli -- Richard Schoen -- Marek Kossowski -- Karel V. Kucha�r -- John L. Friedman and Donald M. Witt -- Philip B. Yasskin -- P. D. D'Eath and J. J. Halliwell -- Michael E. Peskin -- William T. Shaw -- http://www.ams.org/conm/071/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/071/954404 http://www.ams.org/conm/071/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/071/954405 http://www.ams.org/conm/071/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/071/954406 http://www.ams.org/conm/071/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/071/954407 http://www.ams.org/conm/071/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/071/954408 http://www.ams.org/conm/071/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/071/954409 http://www.ams.org/conm/071/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/071/954410 http://www.ams.org/conm/071/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/071/954411 http://www.ams.org/conm/071/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/071/954412 http://www.ams.org/conm/071/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/071/954413 http://www.ams.org/conm/071/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/071/954414 http://www.ams.org/conm/071/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/071/954415 http://www.ams.org/conm/071/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/071/954416 http://www.ams.org/conm/071/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/071/954417 http://www.ams.org/conm/071/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/071/954418 http://www.ams.org/conm/071/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/071/954419 http://www.ams.org/conm/071/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/071/954420 http://www.ams.org/conm/071/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/071/954421 http://www.ams.org/conm/071/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/071/954422 http://www.ams.org/conm/071/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/071/954423 http://www.ams.org/conm/071/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/071/954424 http://www.ams.org/conm/071/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/071/954425 http://www.ams.org/conm/071/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/071/954426 http://www.ams.org/conm/071/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/071/954427 http://www.ams.org/conm/071/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/071/954428

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General relativity (Physics)--Mathematics--Congresses.
Mathematical physics--Congresses.

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