Advanced general relativity: gravity waves, spinning particles, and black holes /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barrabes, C.
Other Authors: Hogan, P A.
Format: Printed Book
Published: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
Series:International series of monographs on physics ;160
Oxford science publications
Subjects:
General relativity (Physics)
Gravity waves.
Black holes (Astronomy).
Online Access:https://books.google.co.in/books?id=_t2j8ce3IioC&pg=PR2&dq=Advanced+general+relativity&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiqx5_xuKHLAhVPCI4KHcA5DjQQ6AEILjAD#v=onepage&q=Advanced%20general%20relativity&f=false
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-141) and index. 
505 0 |a Machine generated contents note: 1.Minkowskian space-time -- 1.1.Lorentz tansformations -- 1.2.Non-singular and singular Lorentz transformations -- 1.3.Infinitesimal Lorentz transformations -- 1.4.Geometrical construction of a gravitational wave -- 2.Plane gravitational waves -- 2.1.From linear approximation to colliding waves -- 2.2.Electromagnetic shock waves -- 2.3.Gravitational shock waves -- 2.4.High-frequency gravity waves -- 3.Equations of motion -- 3.1.Motivation -- 3.2.Example of a background space-time -- 3.3.Equations of motion of a Reissner-Nordstrom particle in first approximation -- 3.4.Background space-time for a Kerr particle -- 3.5.Equations of motion of a Kerr particle in first approximation -- 3.6.Spinning test particles -- 4.Inhomogeneous aspects of cosmology -- 4.1.Plane-fronted gravitational waves with a cosmological constant -- 4.2.Perturbations of isotropic cosmologies -- 4.3.Gravitational waves -- 4.4.Cosmic background radiation -- 5.Black holes -- 5.1.Introduction: Basic properties of black holes -- 5.2.Collapsing null shells and trapped surface formation -- 5.3.Scattering properties of high-speed Kerr black holes -- 5.4.Inside the black hole -- 5.5.Metric fluctuations and Hawking radiation -- 6.Higher dimensional black holes -- 6.1.Brief outline of D-dimensional black holes -- 6.2.Gibbons-Penrose isoperimetric inequality and the hoop conjecture in D dimensions -- 6.3.Light-like boost of higher dimensional black holes. 
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