• Media type: Book
  • Title: General relativity
  • Contains: 1. Introduction2. Physics in external gravitational fields -- 3. Einstein's field equations -- 4. The Schwarzschild solution and classical tests of general relativity -- 5. Weak gravitational fields -- 6. The post-Newtonian approximation -- 7. White dwarfs and neutron stars -- 8. Black holes -- 9. The positive mass theorem -- 10. Essential of Friedmann-Lemaãitre models -- 11. Differentiable manifolds -- 12. Tangent vectors, vector and tensor fields -- 13. The lie derivative -- 14. Differential forms -- 15. Affine connections -- 16. Some details and supplements -- Appendix A. Fundamental equations for hypersurfaces -- Appendix B. Ricci curvature of warped products -- Appendix C. Frobenius integrability theorm -- Appendix D. Collection of important formulas.
  • Contributor: Straumann, Norbert [Author]
  • imprint: Dordrecht; Heidelberg [u.a.]: Springer, 2013
  • Published in: Graduate texts in physics
  • Issue: 2. ed.
  • Extent: XIX, 735 S.; graph. Darst
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9789400799547; 9789400754096
  • RVK notation: UH 8300 : Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie
  • Keywords: Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie > Relativistische Astrophysik
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