Workshop I — Black holes and compact objects: Classical aspects

Abstract

This is a summary of the papers presented in session W1 on the papers submitted to the workshop I on the classical aspects of black holes and compact objects were classified into three categories: (i) theoretical aspects; (ii) astrophysical aspects; (iii) gravitational radiation. The three sessions were devoted each to one of the above categories. The chairmen of the workshop were J Bičák, Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic) and C V Vishveshwara, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, India. List of contributions to Workshop I Theoretical aspects(a) No scalar hair theorem for charged black holes in scalar tensor theories, by

Magnetic field evolution of accreting neutron stars – IV. Effect of the curvature of space–time

“…Recently, Sengupta (1997Sengupta ( , 1998 addressed this issue for isolated pulsars and found that the modification introduced by a general relativistic treatment is significantly large. However, our results are at variance with this claim (Ramachandra & Vishweshwara 2000). Indeed, this is supported by the recent work of and .…”