Advanced Lectures on General Relativity

• Main Author: Compère, Geoffrey (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 952
• Subjects: Gravitation.; Astrophysics.; Mathematical physics.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Theoretical Astrophysics.
• Physical Description: X, 140 p. 20 illus., 18 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783030042608
• ISSN: 0075-8450 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-04260-8

These lecture notes are intended for starting PhD students in theoretical physics who have a working knowledge of General Relativity. The four topics covered are: Surface charges as conserved quantities in theories of gravity; Classical and holographic features of three-dimensional Einstein gravity; Asymptotically flat spacetimes in four dimensions: BMS group and memory effects; The Kerr black hole: properties at extremality and quasi-normal mode ringing. Each topic starts with historical foundations and points to a few modern research directions.