Global Structure and Evolution in General Relativity: Proceedings of the First Samos Meeting on Cosmology, Geometry and Relativity Held at Karlovassi, Samos, Greece, 5-7 September 1994

The five lectures presented in this volume address very timely mathematical problems in relativity and cosmology. Part I is devoted to the initial value and evolution problems of the Einstein equations. Especially it deals with the Einstein-Yang-Mills-Boltzmann system, fluid models with finite or infinite conductivity, global evolution of a new (two-phase) model for gravitational collapse and the structure of maximal, asymptotically flat, vacuum solutions of the constraint equations which h...