Methods of Local and Global Differential Geometry in General Relativity : Proceedings of the Regional Conference on Relativity

Farnsworth, D. ; Fink, J. ; Porter, John ; & Thompson, A. ; editors:

ISBN 10: 3540057935 / ISBN 13: 9783540057932

Published by Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg, 1972

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25x17cm, vi,188 pp., Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 14. Full title reads: "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".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Methods of Local and Global Differential Geometry in General Relativity : Proceedings of the Regional Conference on Relativity
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg
• Publication Date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 3540057935
• ISBN 13: 9783540057932
• Binding: orig. wrappers
• Condition: Minor wear. VG.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Physics

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Synopsis

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.