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Gravitation : Foundations and Frontiers.
Covering all aspects of gravitation in a contemporary style, this advanced textbook is ideal for graduate students and researchers.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of exercises; List of projects; Preface; How to use this book; 1 Special relativity; 2 Scalar and electromagnetic fields in special relativity; 3 Gravity and spacetime geometry: the inescapable connection; 4 Metric tensor, geodesics and covariant derivative; 5 Curvature of spacetime; 6 Einstein's field equations and gravitational dynamics; 7 Spherically symmetric geometry; 8 Black holes; 9 Gravitational waves; 10 Relativistic cosmology; 11 Differential forms and exterior calculus; 12 Hamiltonian structure of general relativity.
- 13 Evolution of cosmological perturbations14 Quantum field theory in curved spacetime; 15 Gravity in higher and lower dimensions; 16 Gravity as an emergent phenomenon; Notes; Index.