Introduction to black hole physics /

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"This book is about black holes, one of the most intriguing objects of modern Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics. For many years, black holes have been considered as interesting solutions of the theory of General Relativity with a number of amusing mathematical properties. Now after the disc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Frolov, V. P.
Other Authors: Zelnikov, Andrei
Format: Printed Book
Published: Oxford ; Oxford Oxford University Press, USA, 2015.
Subjects:
Black holes (Astronomy)
Gravitational collapse.
Stars
SCIENCE / Astrophysics & Space Science.
SCIENCE / Cosmology.
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note:
  • 1. Black Holes: Big Picture
  • 2. Physics in a Uniformly Accelerated Frame
  • 3. Riemannian Geometry
  • 4. Particles Motion in Curved Spacetime
  • 5. Einstein Equations
  • 6. Spherically Symmetric Black Holes
  • 7. Particles and Light Motion in Schwarzschild Spacetime
  • 8. Rotating Black Holes
  • 9. Classical and Quantum Fields near Black Holes
  • 10. Black Holes and All That Jazz
  • A. Fundamental Constants and Units
  • B. Gauss-Codazzi Equations
  • C. Conformal Transformations
  • D. Hidden Symmetries
  • E. Boundary Term for the Einstein-Hilbert Action
  • F. Quantum Fields.

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