Advanced General Relativity
Series: Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics;
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 26 November 1993
- ISBN 9780521449465
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 228x152x13 mm
- Weight 369 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 30 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
A self-contained introduction to advanced general relativity.
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This is a modern self-contained introduction to key topics in advanced general relativity. The opening chapter reviews the subject, with strong emphasis on the geometric structures underlying the theory. The next chapter discusses 2-component spinor theory, its usefulness for describing zero-mass fields, its practical application via Newman-Penrose formalism, together with examples and applications. The subsequent chapter is an account of the asymptotic theory far from a strong gravitational source, describing the mathematical theory by which measurements of the far-field and gravitational radiation emanating from a source can be used to describe the source itself. The final chapter describes the natural characteristic initial value problem, first in general terms, and then with particular emphasis for relativity, concluding with its relation to Arnold's singularity theory. Exercises are included.
' ... can be recommended as an advanced introduction to applications of spinors in gravitational physics and in flat space.' L. M. Sokolowski, Classical and Quantum Gravity
Table of Contents:
Preface; 1. Differential geometry; 2. Spinors; 3. Asymptopia; 4. The characteristic initial value problem; Appendices; References; Index.
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