Spacetime And Geometry

The Alfred Schild Lectures

Richard A. Matzner, L. C. Shepley (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

1982
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-0-292-74138-6 (ISBN)

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These reports, at the forefront of relativity theory when they were written, in particular the geometrical aspects of spacetime theory, were the result of the Alfred Schild Memorial Lecture Series presented at the University of Texas at Austin beginning in 1977. Each article is a self-contained summary of an important area of contemporary gravitational physics, while the book as a whole provides an overview of a wide variety of the problems of general relativity and gravitation.

Richard A. Matzner and L. C. Shepley were professors of physics at the University of Texas at Austin.

Preface
1. Why Is the Universe So Symmetrical? (Dennis Sciama)
2. Null Congruences and Plebanski-Schild Spaces (Ivor Robinson)
3. Linearization Stability (Dieter Brill)
4. Nonlinear Model Field Theories Based on Harmonic Mappings (Charles W. Misner)
5. Gravitational Fields in General Relativity (Roy P. Kerr)
6. On the Potential Barriers Surrounding the Schwarzschild Black Hole
(Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar)
7. The Initial Value Problem and Beyond (James W. York, Jr., and Tsvi Piran)
Notes on Contributors
Index to Works Cited
Index of Topics

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.3.2012
Verlagsort	Austin, TX
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Relativitätstheorie
ISBN-10	0-292-74138-3 / 0292741383
ISBN-13	978-0-292-74138-6 / 9780292741386
Zustand	Neuware