General relativity

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9789400754096 ; 9400754094
• Dimensions: 24 cm
• Extent: XIX, 735 p.
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Language: Deutsch
• Notes: ill. ; Includes bibliographical references and index.. - 1. Introduction -- 2. 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-Lemaître 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.

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Dordrecht, New York, NY
• (who): Springer
• (when): 2013
• Creator: Straumann, Norbert
• Contributor: Straumann, Norbert

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