General Relativity: Proceedings of the Forty Sixth Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics (Aberdeen, July 1995)

G. S. Hall, J. R. Pulham9780750303958, 0750303956, 0750304197

This volume contains the courses on General Relativity delivered at the 46th Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, held at Aberdeen in July 1995. Each course was given by an acknowledged expert in their field. The courses were aimed at postgraduates and postdoctoral students and provide an introduction to many areas of the subject, both mathematical and physical. Chapters on mathematical relativity cover many topics including initial value problems, a different approach to the partial differential equations of physics and current work on partial solutions. Cosmology is represented by chapters on relativistic cosmology and on black holes. Other chapters deal with gravitational waves, experimental relativity, quantum gravity and aspects of computing in relativity.

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Table of contents :
Title ……Page 1
Date-line ……Page 2
Series contents ……Page 3
Lecturers ……Page 5
Preface ……Page 7
Contents ……Page 8
Mathematics of General Relativity (Bernd Schmidt) ……Page 9
Partial Differential Equations of Physics (Robert Geroch) ……Page 27
Gravitostatics and Rotating Bodies (Gemot Neugebauer) ……Page 69
A Guide to Basic Exact Solutions (Zoltan Perjes) ……Page 91
Relativistic Cosmology (John Wainwright) ……Page 115
Black Holes in Cosmology and Astrophysics (Bernard Carr) ……Page 151
Source of Gravitational Waves (Jose Alberto Lobo) ……Page 211
Detection of Gravitational Waves (Norna A Robertson) ……Page 231
The Confrontation between General Relativity and Experiment. A 1995 Update (Clifford M Will)……Page 247
Algebraic Computing in General Relativity (Ray D’Inverno) ……Page 291
Numerical Computing in General Relativity (Ray D’Inverno) ……Page 339
Quantum Gravity (Malcolm Perry) ……Page 385
Poster Abstracts ……Page 415
Participants’ Addresses ……Page 421
Index ……Page 427