Theory of gravitational interactions /
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Author / Creator: | Gasperini, Maurizio, author. |
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Edition: | 2nd ed. |
Imprint: | Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2017. |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Language: | English |
Series: | Unitext for physics UNITEXT for physics. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11269677 |
Table of Contents:
- Elementary Notions of Relativistic Field Theory
- Towards a Relativistic Theory of Gravity
- Tensor Calculus in a Riemann Manifold
- Maxwell Equations and Riemann Geometry
- Test Bodies and Signals in a Riemann SpaceTime
- Geodesic Deviation and Curvature Tensor
- The Einstein Equations for the Gravitational Field
- The Weak-Field Approximation
- Gravitational Waves
- The Schwarzschild Solution
- The Kasner Solution
- Vierbeins and Lorentz Connection
- The Dirac Equation in a Gravitational Field
- Supersymmetry and Supergravity
- Appendix A The Language of Differential Forms
- Appendix B Higher-Dimensional Gravity
- References
- Index.