General Relativity With Applications to Astrophysics

This text provides a comprehensive and timely introduction to general relativity. The foundations of the theory in Part I are thoroughly developed together with the required mathematical background from differential geometry in Part III. The six chapters in Part II are devoted to tests of general re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Straumann, Norbert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2004, 2004
Edition:1st ed. 2004
Series:Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Physics in External Gravitational Fields
  • 2 Einstein’s Field Equations
  • 3 The Schwarzschild Solution and Classical Tests of General Relativity
  • 4 Weak Gravitational Fields
  • 5 The Post-Newtonian Approximation
  • 6 White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars
  • 7 Black Holes
  • 8 The Positive Mass Theorem
  • 9 Differentiable Manifolds
  • 10 Tangent Vectors, Vector and Tensor Fields
  • 11 The Lie Derivative
  • 12 Differential Forms
  • 13 Affine Connections
  • 14 Some Details
  • A Fundamental Equations for Hypersurfaces
  • B Ricci Curvature of Warped Products
  • C Frobenius Integrability Theorem
  • D Collection of Important Formulas
  • References