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Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Flanagan, Eanna E.
Author's Email Address	eef3 AT cornell.edu
URN	etd-11132006-095610
Persistent URL	http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-11132006-095610
Title	Topics in general relativity : the hoop conjecture and theoretical aspects of gravitational wave detection
Degree	PhD
Option	Physics
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Kip S. Thorne Committee Chair Sterl Phinney Committee Member Tom Soifer Committee Member
Keywords	none
Date of Defense	1993-09-23
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract The body of this thesis consists of four chapters (2 through 5), each of which is a paper that has been published in or submitted for publication to Physical Review D. I am the sole author of chapters 2, 3, and 4; Curt Cutler coauthored chapter 5 with me. These four chapters deal with two topics in general relativity: the formation of horizons in nonspherical gravitational collapse (chapters 2 and 3), and some theoretical aspects of the effort to detect gravitational waves from cosmic sources (chapters 4 and 5). These four chapters were written largely for experts in the topics they cover. As an aid to general readers, I shall give in this introductory chapter some background information about chapters 2 through 5 and a nontechnical overview of their contents.
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