Kirill Krasnov

Formulations of General Relativity

Gravity, Spinors and Differential Forms

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 175mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 848g
• ISBN-13: 9781108481649
• ISBN-10: 1108481647
• Artikelnr.: 59369469

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.