Methods of Local and Global Differential Geometry in General Relativity
Proceedings of the Regional Conference on Relativity held at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 13-17, 1970
Published on 1. January 1972
Book
Paperback/Softback
VI, 191 pages
978-3-540-05793-2 (ISBN)
Description
Techniques of topology and differential geometry in general relativity.- A simple derivation of the general redshift formula.- Some remarks on a radiating solution of the Einstein-Maxwell equations.- Conservation laws on manifolds.- Structure of singularities.- Lattice transformations and charge quantization.- On an Einstein-Maxwell field with a null source.- The luminosity of a collapsing star.- A class of inextendible Weyl solutions.- Scaling in function spaces.- On the spherical symmetry of a static perfect fluid.- Differentiable manifolds with singularities.- Non-vacuum ADaM field equations.- General relativity as a dynamical system on the manifold a of Riemannian metrics which cover diffeomorphisms.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
VI, 191 p.
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
387 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-05793-2 (9783540057932)
DOI
10.1007/3-540-05793-5
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Content
Techniques of topology and differential geometry in general relativity.- A simple derivation of the general redshift formula.- Some remarks on a radiating solution of the Einstein-Maxwell equations.- Conservation laws on manifolds.- Structure of singularities.- Lattice transformations and charge quantization.- On an Einstein-Maxwell field with a null source.- The luminosity of a collapsing star.- A class of inextendible Weyl solutions.- Scaling in function spaces.- On the spherical symmetry of a static perfect fluid.- Differentiable manifolds with singularities.- Non-vacuum ADaM field equations.- General relativity as a dynamical system on the manifold a of Riemannian metrics which cover diffeomorphisms.