Spacetime And Geometry

The Alfred Schild Lectures
Herausgeber: Matzner, Richard A.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

These reports, at the forefront of relativity theory when they were written, in particular the geometrical aspects of spacetime theory, were the result of the Alfred Schild Memorial Lecture Series presented at the University of Texas at Austin beginning in 1977.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 1982
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780292741386
• ISBN-10: 0292741383
• Artikelnr.: 35303946

Autorenporträt

Richard A. Matzner and L. C. Shepley were professors of physics at the University of Texas at Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* 1. Why Is the Universe So Symmetrical? (Dennis Sciama)
* 2. Null Congruences and Plebanski-Schild Spaces (Ivor Robinson)
* 3. Linearization Stability (Dieter Brill)
* 4. Nonlinear Model Field Theories Based on Harmonic Mappings (Charles
W. Misner)
* 5. Gravitational Fields in General Relativity (Roy P. Kerr)
* 6. On the Potential Barriers Surrounding the Schwarzschild Black Hole
* (Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar)
* 7. The Initial Value Problem and Beyond (James W. York, Jr., and Tsvi
Piran)
* Notes on Contributors
* Index to Works Cited
* Index of Topics