Gravitation
eBook - PDF

Gravitation

Foundations and Frontiers

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Gravitation

Foundations and Frontiers

About this book

Covering all aspects of gravitation in a contemporary style, this advanced textbook is ideal for graduate students and researchers in all areas of theoretical physics. The 'Foundation' section develops the formalism in six chapters, and uses it in the next four chapters to discuss four key applications - spherical spacetimes, black holes, gravitational waves and cosmology. The six chapters in the 'Frontier' section describe cosmological perturbation theory, quantum fields in curved spacetime, and the Hamiltonian structure of general relativity, among several other advanced topics, some of which are covered in-depth for the first time in a textbook. The modular structure of the book allows different sections to be combined to suit a variety of courses. Over 200 exercises are included to test and develop the reader's understanding. There are also over 30 projects, which help readers make the transition from the book to their own original research.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of exercises
  8. List of projects
  9. Preface
  10. How to use this book
  11. 1 Special relativity
  12. 2 Scalar and electromagnetic fields in special relativity
  13. 3 Gravity and spacetime geometry: the inescapable connection
  14. 4 Metric tensor, geodesics and covariant derivative
  15. 5 Curvature of spacetime
  16. 6 Einstein’s field equations and gravitational dynamics
  17. 7 Spherically symmetric geometry
  18. 8 Black holes
  19. 9 Gravitational waves
  20. 10 Relativistic cosmology
  21. 11 Differential forms and exterior calculus
  22. 12 Hamiltonian structure of general relativity
  23. 13 Evolution of cosmological perturbations
  24. 14 Quantum field theory in curved spacetime
  25. 15 Gravity in higher and lower dimensions
  26. 16 Gravity as an emergent phenomenon
  27. Notes
  28. Index
  29. Blank Page