Exact Solutions and Scalar Fields in Gravity: Recent Developments

Preface. Contributing Authors. Part I: Exact Solutions. Self-gravitating stationary axi-symmetric perfect fluids: Differential rotation and some geometric features; F.J. Chinea. New Directions for the New Millennium; F.J. Ernst. On maximally symmetric and totally geodesic spaces; A. Garcia. Discussion of the theta formula for the Ernst potential of the rigidly rotating disk of dust; A. Kleinwächter. The superposition of null dust beams in General Relativity; D. Kramer. Solving equilibrium problem for the double-Kerr spacetime; V.S. Manko, E. Ruiz. Rotating equilibrium configurations in Einstein's theory of gravitation; R. Meinel. Integrability of SDYM Equations for the Moyal Bracket Lie Algebra; M. Przanowski, et al. Part II: Alternative Theories and Scalar Fields. The FRW Universes with Barotropic Fluids in Jordan-Brans-Dicke-Theory; P. Chauvet-Alducin. Higgs-Field and Gravity; H. Dehnen. The road to Gravitational S-duality; H. Garcia-Compeán, et al. Exact solutions in multidimensional gravity with p-branes and PPN Parameters; V.D. Ivashchuk, V.N. Melnikov. Effective four-dimensional dilaton gravity from five-dimensional Chern-Simons gravity; A. Macias, A. Garcia. A plane-fronted wave solution in metric-affine gravity; D. Puetzfeld. Part III: Cosmology and Inflation. New solutions of Bianchi models in scalar-tensor theories; J.L. Cervantes-Cota, et al. Scalar Field Dark Matter; T. Matos, et al. Inflation with a blue eigenvalue spectrum; E.W. Mielke, F.E. Schunck. Classical and Quantum cosmology with and without self-interacting scalar field in Bergmann-Wagoner theory; L.O. Pimentel, C. Mora. The Big Bang in T3 Gowdy Cosmological Models; H. Quevedo. Theinfluence of scalar fields in protogalactic interactions; M.A. Rodriguez-Meza, et al. Adaptive Calculation of a Collapsing Molecular Cloud Core: The Jeans Condition; L. Di G. Sigalotti, J. Klapp. Revisiting the calculation of inflationary perturbations; C.A. Terrero-Escalante, et al. Conformal symmetry and deflationary gas universe; W. Zimdahl, A.B. Balakin. Part IV: Experiments and Other Topics. Staticity Theorem for Non-Rotating Black Holes with Non-Minimally Coupled Self-Interacting Scalar Fields; E. Ayó;n-Beato. Quantum nondemolition measurements and non-Newtonian gravity; A. Camacho. On Electromagnetic Thirring Problems; M. King, H. Pfister. On the experimental foundation of Maxwell's equations; C. Lämmerzahl. Lorentz force free charged fluids in general relativity: The physical interpretation; N.V. Mitskievich. Index.