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.

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;...

Table of Contents:

• Surface charges in Gravitation
• Three dimensional Einstein gravity
• Asymptotically flat spacetime
• Rotating black holes.