General Relativity
This book provides a completely revised and expanded version of the previous classic edition ‘General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics’. In Part I the foundations of general relativity are thoroughly developed, while Part II is devoted to tests of general relativity and many of its applicati...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. 2013. |
| Series: | Graduate Texts in Physics,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5410-2 |
Table of Contents:
- From the Contents: Part I The General Theory of Relativity
- Introduction
- Physics in External Gravitational Fields
- Einstein’s Field Equations
- Part II Applications of General Relativity
- The Schwarzschild Solution and Classical Tests of General Relativity.- Weak Gravitational Fields
- The Post-Newtonian Approximation
- White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars
- Black Holes
- The Positive Mass Theorem
- Essentials of Friedmann-Lemaˆıtre Models
- Part III Differential Geometry
- Differentiable Manifolds
- Tangent Vectors, Vector and Tensor Fields
- The Lie Derivative
- Differential Forms
- Affine Connections
- Some Details and Supplements.