Gravitation as a Plastic Distortion of the Lorentz Vacuum

• Main Authors: Fernández, Virginia Velma (Author), Rodrigues, Waldyr A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics ; 168
• Subjects: Physics.; Algebra.; Differential geometry.; Gravitation.; Cosmology.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Differential Geometry.

Addressing graduate students and researchers in theoretical physics and mathematics, this book presents a new formulation of the theory of gravity. In the new approach the gravitational field has the same ontology as the electromagnetic, strong, and weak fields. In other words it is a physical field...

Table of Contents:

• Multiforms, Extensors, Canonical and Metric Clifford Algebras
• Multiform Functions and Multiform Functionals
• Multiform and Extensor Calculus on Manifolds
• Gravitation as Plastic Distortion of the Lorentz Vacuum
• Gravitation Described by the Potentials
• Hamiltonian Formalism
• Conclusions.