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Relativity on Curved Manifolds F. de Felice (Universita degli Studi di Torino, Italy)

Relativity on Curved Manifolds By F. de Felice (Universita degli Studi di Torino, Italy)

Relativity on Curved Manifolds by F. de Felice (Universita degli Studi di Torino, Italy)


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'This is an excellent book and admirably lives up to the promise implied in its title in giving a thorough treatment of the mathematical structure underlying the theory of general relativity.' T. R. Carson, Observatory

Relativity on Curved Manifolds Summary

Relativity on Curved Manifolds by F. de Felice (Universita degli Studi di Torino, Italy)

This is a self-contained exposition of general relativity with emphasis given to tetrad and spinor structures and physical measurements on curved manifolds. General relativity is now essential to the understanding of modern physics, but the power of the theory cannot be fully explained without a detailed knowledge of its mathematical structure. The aim of this book is to introduce this structure, and then to use it to develop those applications that have been central to the growth of the theory. An overview of differential geometry is provided and properties of a tetrad field are then extensively analysed. These are used to introduce spinors, to describe the geometry of congruences and define the physical measurements on a curved manifold. The coupling of fields and geometry is investigated in terms of Lagrangeans and a detailed discussion of some exact solutions of the Einstein equations are provided.

Relativity on Curved Manifolds Reviews

' ... a useful book with some unusual features which will win it a place on relativists' shelves and may be of interest to mathematical physicists in general.' Contemporary Physics

Table of Contents

Geometry and physics: an overview; 1. The background manifold structure; 2. Differentiation; 3. The curvature; 4. Space-time and tetrad formalism; 5. Spinors and the classification of the Weyl tensor; 6. Coupling between fields and geometry; 7. Dynamics on curved manifolds; 8. Geometry of congruences; 9. Physical measurements in space-time; 10. Spherically symmetric solutions; 11. Axially symmetric solutions; References; Notation; Index.

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NPB9780521266390
9780521266390
0521266394
Relativity on Curved Manifolds by F. de Felice (Universita degli Studi di Torino, Italy)
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
1990-05-25
464
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