Relativity on Curved Manifolds

Klappentext This is a self-contained exposition of general relativity with emphasis given to tetrad and spinor structures and physical measurement on curved manifolds. Zusammenfassung 'This is an excellent book and admirably lives up to the promise implied in its title in giving a thorough treatment of the mathematical structure underlying the theory of general relativity.' T. R. Carson! Observatory Inhaltsverzeichnis Geometry and physics: an overview; 1. The background manifold structure; 2. Differentiation; 3. The curvature; 4. Space-time and tetrad formalism; 5. Spinors and the classification of the Weyl tensor; 6. Coupling between fields and geometry; 7. Dynamics on curved manifolds; 8. Geometry of congruences; 9. Physical measurements in space-time; 10. Spherically symmetric solutions; 11. Axially symmetric solutions; References; Notation; Index.

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• Authors: C. J. S. Clarke, F. De Felice, F. (Universita Degli Studi DI Torino De Felice, F.de Clarke Felice
• Assisted by: Peter Landshoff (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.05.1990
• EAN: 9780521266390
• ISBN: 978-0-521-26639-0
• No. of pages: 464
• Series: Cambridge Monographs on Mathem
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > General, dictionaries