Gravitation as a Plastic Distortion of the Lorentz Vacuum

Addressing graduate students and researchers in theoretical physics and mathematics, this book presents a new formulation of the theory of gravity. In the new approach the gravitational field has the same ontology as the electromagnetic, strong, and weak fields. In other words it is a physical field living in Minkowski spacetime. Some necessary new mathematical concepts are introduced and carefully explained. Then they are used to describe the deformation of geometries, the key to describing the gravitational field as a plastic deformation of the Lorentz vacuum. It emerges after further analysis that the theory provides trustworthy energy-momentum and angular momentum conservation laws, a feature that is normally lacking in General Relativity.

List of contents

Multiforms, Extensors, Canonical and Metric Clifford Algebras.- Multiform Functions and Multiform Functionals.- Multiform and Extensor Calculus on Manifolds.- Gravitation as Plastic Distortion of the Lorentz Vacuum.- Gravitation Described by the Potentials .- Hamiltonian Formalism.- Conclusions.

Summary

Addressing graduate students and researchers in theoretical physics and mathematics, this book presents a new formulation of the theory of gravity. In the new approach the gravitational field has the same ontology as the electromagnetic, strong, and weak fields. In other words it is a physical field living in Minkowski spacetime. Some necessary new mathematical concepts are introduced and carefully explained. Then they are used to describe the deformation of geometries, the key to describing the gravitational field as a plastic deformation of the Lorentz vacuum. It emerges after further analysis that the theory provides trustworthy energy-momentum and angular momentum conservation laws, a feature that is normally lacking in General Relativity.

Product details

• Authors: Virginia Velm Fernández, Virginia Velma Fernández, Waldyr A Rodrigues, Waldyr A. Rodrigues
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2010
• EAN: 9783642135880
• ISBN: 978-3-642-13588-0
• No. of pages: 154
• Dimensions: 193 mm x 268 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 503 g
• Illustrations: X, 154 p. 3 illus.
• Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics; Fundamental Theories of Physics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics; Algebra, Gravitation, B, Kosmologie und das Universum, Mathematische Physik, Differentielle und Riemannsche Geometrie, Cosmology, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Differential Geometry, Physics and Astronomy, Relativity physics, Mathematical physics, Differential & Riemannian geometry, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory