Formulations of General Relativity - Gravity, Spinors and Differential Forms

Carefully documenting the different formulations of general relativity, the author reveals valuable insight into the nature of the gravitational force and its interaction with matter. This book will interest graduate students and researchers in the fields of general relativity, gravitational physics and differential geometry.

List of contents

Preface; Introduction; 1. Aspects of differential geometry; 2. Metric and related formulations; 3. Cartan's tetrad formulation; 4. General relativity in 2+1 dimensions; 5. The 'chiral' formulation of general relativity; 6. Chiral pure connection formulation; 7. Deformations of general relativity; 8. Perturbative descriptions of gravity; 9. Higher-dimensional descriptions; 10. Concluding remarks; References; Index.

About the author

Kirill Krasnov is Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Nottingham. Since receiving his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University, he has worked at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam.

Summary

Carefully documenting the different formulations of general relativity, the author reveals valuable insight into the nature of the gravitational force and its interaction with matter. This book will interest graduate students and researchers in the fields of general relativity, gravitational physics and differential geometry.

Product details

• Authors: Kirill Krasnov, Kirill (University of Nottingham) Krasnov
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781108481649
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48164-9
• No. of pages: 404
• Series: Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics; Cambridge Monographs on Mathem
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > General, dictionaries; Gravity, Cosmology & the universe, Cosmology and the universe, Relativity physics, Mathematical physics, SCIENCE / Space Science / Cosmology, Mathematical / Computational / Theoretical physics