Kirill Krasnov

Formulations of General Relativity (eBook, ePUB)

Gravity, Spinors and Differential Forms

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This monograph describes the different formulations of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. Unlike traditional treatments, Cartan's geometry of fibre bundles and differential forms is placed at the forefront, and a detailed review of the relevant differential geometry is presented. Particular emphasis is given to general relativity in 4D space-time, in which the concepts of chirality and self-duality begin to play a key role. Associated chiral formulations are catalogued, and shown to lead to many practical simplifications. The book develops the chiral gravitational perturbation theory, in which the spinor formalism plays a central role. The book also presents in detail the twistor description of gravity, as well as its generalisation based on geometry of 3-forms in seven dimensions. Giving valuable insight into the very nature of gravity, this book joins our highly prestigious Cambridge Monographs in Mathematical Physics series. It will interest graduate students and researchers in the fields of theoretical physics and differential geometry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108689601
• Artikelnr.: 62745329

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.