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A modern self-contained introduction to key topics in advanced general relativity. The opening chapter reviews the subject, with strong emphasis on the geometric structures underlying the theory. The next chapter discusses 2-component spinor theory, its usefulness for describing zero-mass fields, its practical application via Newman-Penrose formalism, together with examples and applications. The subsequent chapter is an account of the asymptotic theory far from a strong gravitational source, describing the mathematical theory by which measurements of the far-field and gravitational radiation emanating from a source can be used to describe the source itself. The final chapter describes the natural characteristic initial value problem, first in general terms, and then with particular emphasis for relativity, concluding with its relation to Arnold's singularity theory. Exercises are included.
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After reviewing the subject from a geometrical perspective, this self-contained introduction to key topics in advanced general relativity describes 2-component spinor theory, asymptotic theory far from a strong gravitational source and the natural characteristic initial value problem.
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This book is a self-contained introduction to key topics in advance general relativity. The opening chapter reviews the subject, with strong emphasis on the geometric structures underlying the theory. The second chapter discusses 2-component spinor theory, its usefulness for describing zero-mass fields and its practical application via Newman-Penrose formalism, together with examples and applications.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0521323193
- ISBN 13 9780521323192
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages236
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