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Advanced general relativity: gravity waves, spinning particles, and black holes /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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Oxford:
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | International series of monographs on physics ;160
Oxford science publications |
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| 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 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.