Arlie Petters, Marcus Werner

Gravitational Lensing in Spacetimes

Matter, Dark Energy, and Black Holes

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This unique monograph provides a rigorous, unified, exposition of gravitational lensing in spacetimes with matter, dark energy, and black holes
Can be used as a text for a graduate course or advanced undergraduate seminar
Should be of interest to interdisciplinary researchers in mathematics, mathematical physics, astrophysics, cosmology, and general relativity
Petters' work has been celebrated in NYTimes and Duke articles

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 11560777
• 2017
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2028
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm
• ISBN-13: 9781441903273
• ISBN-10: 1441903275
• Artikelnr.: 26020415

Autorenporträt

¿Marcus Werner currently holds two affiliations: Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University and the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe. Werner's research interest include alternative gravity theories, cosmology and statistics, and mathematics. Arlie Petters  is the Dean of Academic Affairs for Trinity College of Arts and Sciences and Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Duke University. He is also the Benjamin Powell Professor of Mathematics and a Professor of Physics and Economics. Petters has coauthored two books that have had great impact of Singularity Theory and Gravitational Lensing, (c) 2001: 978-0-8176-3668-5 and An Introduction to Mathematical Finance with Applications, (c) 2016: 978-1-4939-3781-3.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.- General Relativity.- Cosmology.- Gravitational Lensing.- Universal Theorems on Gravitational Lensing.- Matter, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy Lensing.- Schwarzschild Black Hole.- Kerr Black Hole.- Black Hole Lensing.- Appendix A: Tensor Fields.- Appendix B: Lorentzian Geometry.- Index.