Richard P.A.C. Newman Explained

Richard P.A.C. Newman (1955–2000) was a physicist notable for his work in the area of cosmology and general relativity.

He completed his PhD in 1979 at the University of Kent at Canterbury under G.C. McVittie with a thesis entitled Singular Perturbations of the Empty Robertson-Walker Cosmologies.

He was a research fellow at the University of York 1984-1986.

He died in 2000.

Selected publications

• Newman, R. P. A. C., & McVittie, G. C., A point particle model universe, in Gen. Rel. Grav. 14, 591 (1982)
• Newman, R. P. A. C., Cosmic censorship and curvature growth, in Gen. Rel. Grav. 15, 641 (1983)
• Newman, R. P. A. C., A theorem of cosmic censorship: a necessary and sufficient condition for future asymptotic predictability, in Gen. Rel. Grav. 16, 175 (1984)^[1]
• Newman, R. P. A. C., Cosmic censorship, persistent curvature and asymptotic causal pathology, in Classical General Relativity, eds. Bonnor, W. B., Islam, J. N., & MacCallum, M. A. H. (Cambridge University Press, 1984)
• Newman, R. P. A. C., Compact space-times and the no-return-theorem in Gen. Rel. Grav. 18, 1181-6 (1986)
• Newman, R. P. A. C., Black holes without singularities in Gen. Rel. Grav. 21 981-95 (1989)
• Joshi, P. S., & Newman, R. P. A. C., General constraints on the structure of naked singularities in classical general relativity, Research report, Mathematical Sciences Research Centre, The Australian National University, Canberra (1987)
• Kriele, M., & Newman R. P. A. C., Differentiability considerations at the onset of causality violation in Classical and Quantum Gravity, vol. 9, no. 5 (1992) pp. 1329–1334
• Newman, R. P. A. C., Conformal singularities and the Weyl curvature hypothesis in Rend. Sem. Mat. Univ. Pol. Tor. 50, 61-67 (1992)
• Newman, R. P. A. C., On the Structure of Conformal Singularities in Classical General Relativity, in Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 443 (1993), pp 473–492^[2]
• Newman, R. P. A. C., On the Structure of Conformal Singularities in Classical General Relativity: II Evolution Equations and a Conjecture of K P Tod, in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Mathematical and Physical Sciences, vol. 443, no. 1919 (Dec. 8, 1993), pp. 493–515^[3]

External links

• Former staff of University of York

Notes and References

1. Abstract online at SAO/NASA ADS Astronomy Abstract Service at harvard.edu (accessed 17 February 2008)
2. Argues why "conformal singularity" should be preferred to "isotropic singularity"
3. Online at JSTOR (accessed 17 February 2008) Discusses the Cauchy initial value problem for barotropic perfect fluid cosmological models with conformal singularity... may provide a basis for a new explanation for the large-scale isotropy of the universe.