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General Relativity: an Einstein Centenary Survey

Contents:

— An introductory survey / S.W. Hawking and W. Israel

— The confrontation between gravitation theory and experiment / C.M. Will

— Gravitational-radiation experiments / D.H. Douglass and V.B. Braginsky

— The initial value problem and the dynamical formulation of general relativity / A.E. Fischer and J.E. Marsden

— Global structure of spacetimes / R. Geroch and G.T. Horowitz — The general theory of the mechanical, electromagnetic and thermodynamic properties of black holes / B. Carter

— An introduction to the theory of the Kerr metric and its perturbations / S. Chandrasekhar

— Black hole astrophysics / R.D. Blandford and K.S. Thorne

— The big bang cosmology — enigmas and nostrums / R.H. Dicke and P.J.E. Peebles

— Cosmology and the early universe / Ya B. Zelʹdovich

— Anisotropic and inhomogeneous relativistic cosmologies / M.A.H. MacCallum

— Singularities and time-assymetry / R. Penrose

— Quantum field theory in curved spacetime / G.W. Gibbons

— Quantum gravity : the new synthesis / B.S. DeWitt

— The path-integral approach to quantum gravity / S.W. Hawking

— Ultraviolet divergences in quantum theories of gravitation / S. Weinberg.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 944
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780521222853
  • Genres
  • physics, science
  • Release date
  • 1979