Gravity, a Geometrical Course Volume 1: Development of the Theory and Basic Physical Applications /

• Main Author: Frè, Pietro Giuseppe (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Gravitation.; Cosmology.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

‘Gravity, a Geometrical Course’ presents general relativity (GR) in a systematic and exhaustive way, covering three aspects that are homogenized into a single texture: i) the mathematical, geometrical foundations, exposed in a self consistent contemporary formalism, ii) the main physical, astrophysi...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgement
• Preface
• Special Relativity: setting the stage.- Manifolds and fibre bundles
• Connections and Metrics
• Motion in the Schwarzschild Field
• Einstein versus Yang Mills Field Equations
• Stellar Equilibrium
• Gravitational Waves and the Binary Pulsars
• Conclusion of volume 1
• Appendix A: Spinors and Gamma Matrix Algebra
• Appendix B: Mathematica Packages
• Index.