This thesis presents a series of results relating to conserved charges in general relativity. In particular, we give a general expression for a gravitational charge corresponding to a boost Killing vector. Further, we use Hamiltonian perturbative techniques to obtain generalizations of the first law of black hole mechanics pertaining to accelerated black holes, stationary Kaluza-Klein black holes and static Kaluza-Klein bubble spacetimes. Finally, we present a generalized Hamiltonian formulation of gravity adapted to a higher dimension splitting of spacetime, motivated by the physics of branes.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UMASS/oai:scholarworks.umass.edu:dissertations-5280 |
| Date | 01 January 2008 |
| Creators | Ray, Sourya |
| Publisher | ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst |
| Source Sets | University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Source | Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest |
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