Exact solutions of Einstein's field equations.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. / |
| Series: | Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=120314 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Tables; Notation; Complex conjugates and constants; Indices; Metric and tetrads; Bivectors; Derivatives; Connection and curvature; Physical fields; Symmetries; 1 Introduction; 2 Differential geometry without a metric; 3 Some topics in Riemannian geometry; 4 The Petrov classification; 5 Classification of the Ricci tensor and the energy-momentum tensor; 6 Vector fields; 7 The Newman-Penrose and related formalisms; 8 Continuous groups of transformations; isometry and homothety groups.