SEMI-RIEMANNIAN GEOMETRY WITH APPLICATIONS TO RELATIVITY by Barrett O'Neill ( 9780125267403 )

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SEMI-RIEMANNIAN GEOMETRY WITH APPLICATIONS TO RELATIVITY

Volume:

Volume 103

By:

Barrett O'Neill

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Hardback

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0125267401

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9780125267403

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Publisher:

ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBLISHING CO INC

Pub. date:

1 June, 1983

Series:

Pure and Applied Mathematics

Pages:

468

Synopsis:

This book is an exposition of semi-Riemannian geometry (also called pseudo-Riemannian geometry)--the study of a smooth manifold furnished with a metric tensor of arbitrary signature. The principal special cases are Riemannian geometry, where the metric is positive definite, and Lorentz geometry. For many years these two geometries have developed almost independently: Riemannian geometry reformulated in coordinate-free fashion and directed toward global problems, Lorentz geometry in classical tensor notation devoted to general relativity. More recently, this divergence has been reversed as physicists, turning increasingly toward invariant methods, have produced results of compelling mathematical interest.

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