Methods of Local and Global Differential Geometry in General Relativity - Proceedings of the Regional Conference on Relativity held at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 13-17, 1970

Techniques of topology and differential geometry in general relativity.- A simple derivation of the general redshift formula.- Some remarks on a radiating solution of the Einstein-Maxwell equations.- Conservation laws on manifolds.- Structure of singularities.- Lattice transformations and charge quantization.- On an Einstein-Maxwell field with a null source.- The luminosity of a collapsing star.- A class of inextendible Weyl solutions.- Scaling in function spaces.- On the spherical symmetry of a static perfect fluid.- Differentiable manifolds with singularities.- Non-vacuum ADaM field equations.- General relativity as a dynamical system on the manifold a of Riemannian metrics which cover diffeomorphisms.

List of contents

Techniques of topology and differential geometry in general relativity.- A simple derivation of the general redshift formula.- Some remarks on a radiating solution of the Einstein-Maxwell equations.- Conservation laws on manifolds.- Structure of singularities.- Lattice transformations and charge quantization.- On an Einstein-Maxwell field with a null source.- The luminosity of a collapsing star.- A class of inextendible Weyl solutions.- Scaling in function spaces.- On the spherical symmetry of a static perfect fluid.- Differentiable manifolds with singularities.- Non-vacuum ADaM field equations.- General relativity as a dynamical system on the manifold a of Riemannian metrics which cover diffeomorphisms.

Product details

• Assisted by: D. Farnsworth (Editor), Fink (Editor), J Fink (Editor), J. Fink (Editor), J. Porter (Editor), J Porter et al (Editor), A. Thompson (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2013
• EAN: 9783540057932
• ISBN: 978-3-540-05793-2
• No. of pages: 191
• Dimensions: 172 mm x 257 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 386 g
• Illustrations: VI, 191 p.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics; Lecture Notes in Physics
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Mechanics, acoustics