Jerry B. Griffiths, Ji¿í Podolský

Exact Space-Times in Einstein's General Relativity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores concepts within general relativity in the context of the particular space-times in which they arise.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 548
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1116g
• ISBN-13: 9780521889278
• ISBN-10: 0521889278
• Artikelnr.: 26884746

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Basic tools and concepts
3. Minkowski space-time
4. de Sitter space-time
5. Anti-de Sitter space-time
6. Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker space-times
7. Electrovacuum and related background space-times
8. Schwarzchild space-time
9. Space-times related to Schwarzchild
10. Static axially symmetric space-times
11. Rotating black holes
12. Taub-NUT space-time
13. Stationary, axially symmetric space-times
14. Accelerating black holes
15. Further solutions for uniformly accelerating particles
16. Plebäski-Demiäski solutions
17. Plane and pp-waves
18. Kundt solutions
19. Robinson-Trautman solutions
20. Impulsive waves
21. Colliding plane waves
22. A final miscellany
Appendix A. 2-spaces of constant curvature
Appendix B. 3-spaces of constant curvature
References
Index.