Prof. Jacek Tafel

email: tafel@fuw.edu.pl www:   phone: (+48 22) 55 32 304 room: H46

 

Research interests

Classical general relativity: black holes, initial constraints, exact solutions in 4 and more dimensions, conformal structure and radiation.
 

Selected publications

• J. Tafel - A class of cosmological models with torsion and spin, Acta Phys. Polon. B6 (1975) 573
• J. Harnad, S. Shnider, J. Tafel - Group actions on principal fibre bundles and dimensional reduction, Lett. Math. Phys. 4 (1980) 107
• J. Harnad, S. Shnider, J. Tafel - Canonical connections on Riemannian symmetric spaces and solutions to the Einstein-Yang-Mills equations, J. Math. Phys. 21 (1980) 2236
• J. Tafel, A. Trautman - Can poles change color?, J. Math. Phys. 24 (1983) 1087
• J. Tafel - On the Robinson theorem and shearfree geodesic null congruences, Lett. Math. Phys. 10 (1985) 33
• J. Tafel - A comparison of solution generating techniques for the self-dual Yang-Mills equations, J. Math. Phys. 30 (1989) 706
• J. Lewandowski, P. Nurowski, J. Tafel - Algebraically special solutions of the Einstein equations with pure radiation fields, Class. Quantum Grav. 8 (1991) 493
• J. Tafel - 2-dimensional reductions of the self-dual Yang-Mills equations in self-dual spaces, J. Math. Phys. 34 (1993) 1892
• J. Tafel - Surfaces in with prescribed curvature, J. Geom. Phys. 17 (1995) 381
• J. Tafel, J. Sniatycki - Nonlinear semigroups and the Yang-Mills equations with the metallic boundary conditions, Commun. Part. Diff. Eqs. 22 (1997) 49-69
• J. Tafel - Yang-Mills-Higgs equations with nonhomogeneous boundary conditions, Class. Quantum Grav. 14 (1997) A335
• J. Tafel - Bondi mass in terms of the Penrose conformal factor, Class. Quantum Grav. 17 (2000) 4397
• A. Szereszewski, J. Tafel - Integrability of the Rarita-Schwinger equation, Class. Quantum Grav. 18 (2001) L129
• M. Jakimowicz, J. Tafel - SO(n+1) symmetric solutions of the Einstein equations in higher dimensions, Class. Quantum Grav. 25 (2008) 175002
• M. Jakimowicz, A. Szereszewski, J. Tafel - D-3 dimensional metrics with D-3 symmetries, Int. J. Theor. Phys. 51 (2012) 1360
• J. Tafel - Spherically symmetric black holes with scalar field, arXiv:1112.2687

List of all papers: SPIRES
 

Selected talks

• XXIV International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, Paris, 2002
• Asymptotic Flatness and Algebraically Special Metrics - XXVIII Spanish Relativistic Meeting, Oviedo, 2005
• Symmetries and completely integrable reductions of the Einstein equations - Geometry of Integrable Systems, Hanoi, 2007
• Generalization of initial data for the Kerr metric - 20th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, Warsaw, 2013
• Static spherical black holes with scalar field - 20th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation, Warsaw, 2013