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Advanced General Relativity

Herausgeber: Landshoff, Peter

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a self-contained introduction to key topics in advance general relativity. The opening chapter reviews the subject, with strong emphasis on the geometric structures underlying the theory. The second chapter discusses 2-component spinor theory, its usefulness for describing zero-mass fields and its practical application via Newman-Penrose formalism, together with examples and applications.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780521449465
• ISBN-10: 0521449464
• Artikelnr.: 22127822

Autorenporträt

John Stewart edited 11 editions of Bridges Not Walls: A Book About Interpersonal Communication, and authored U and Me: Communicating in Moments That Matter, and Personal Communicating and Racial Equity. His research, teaching, and writing at the University of Washington spanned 32 years, and he served the final decade of his career as Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Dubuque. Now retired, he writes and offers Diversity-Equity-Inclusion-Belonging training.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Differential geometry
2. Spinors
3. Asymptopia
4. The characteristic initial value problem
Appendices
References
Index.