Living Reviews in RelativityCurrent articles from Living Reviews in Relativity. Living Reviews in Relativity is a peer-refereed, solely online physics journal publishing invited reviews covering all areas of relativity research. Reviews are kept up to date by their authors. All reference information is collected into a searchable database. Living Reviews in Relativity is a free resource to the scientific community. Published by the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Potsdam,...Spinning Strings and Integrable Spin Chains in the AdSCFT Correspondence- November 30, 2005 In this introductory review we discuss dynamical tests of the AdS_5 S5 stringN = 4 Super Yang-Mills duality. After a brief introduction to AdSCFT, we argue that semiclassical string energies yield information on the quantum spectrum of the string in the limit of large angular momenta on the S5. The energies of the folded and circular spinning string solutions rotating on a S3 within the S5 are derived, which yield all-loop predictions for the dual gauge theory scaling dimensions. These follow..http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2005-9 Massive Black Hole Binary Evolution- November 22, 2005 Coalescence of binary supermassive black holes (SBHs) would constitute the strongest sources of gravitational waves to be observed by LISA. While the formation of binary SBHs during galaxy mergers is almost inevitable, coalescence requires that the separation between binary components first drop by a few orders of magnitude, due presumably to interaction of the binary with stars and gas in a galactic nucleus. This article reviews the observational evidence for binary SBHs and discusses how they.http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2005-8 Binary and Millisecond Pulsars- November 9, 2005 We review the main properties, demographics and applications of binary and millisecond radio pulsars. Our knowledge of these exciting objects has greatly increased in recent years, mainly due to successful surveys which have brought the known pulsar population to over 1700. There are now 80 binary and millisecond pulsars associated with the disk of our Galaxy, and a further 103 pulsars in 24 of the Galactic globular clusters. Recent highlights have been the discovery of the first ever double...http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2005-7 |