RELATIVITY ON CURVED MANIFOLDS by F.De Felice, C.J.S. Clarke ( 9780521266390 )

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RELATIVITY ON CURVED MANIFOLDS

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F.De Felice, C.J.S. Clarke

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

25 May, 1990

Series:

Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics

Pages:

464

Description:

This is a self-contained exposition of general relativity with emphasis given to tetrad and spinor structures and physical measurement on curved manifolds.

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This is a self-contained exposition of general relativity with emphasis given to tetrad and spinor structures and physical measurements on curved manifolds. General relativity is now essential to the understanding of modern physics, but the power of the theory cannot be fully explained without a detailed knowledge of its mathematical structure. The aim of this book is to introduce this structure, and then to use it to develop those applications that have been central to the growth of the theory. An overview of differential geometry is provided and properties of a tetrad field are then extensively analysed. These are used to introduce spinors, to describe the geometry of congruences and define the physical measurements on a curved manifold. The coupling of fields and geometry is investigated in terms of Lagrangeans and a detailed discussion of some exact solutions of the Einstein equations are provided.

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