1: The Organisation of the Book
A: Special Relativity
2: The k-Calculus
3: The Key Attributes of Special Relativity
4: The Elements of Relativistic Mechanics
B: The Formalism of Tensors
5: Tensor Algebra
6: Tensor Calculus
7: Integration, Variation, and Symmetry
C: General Relativity
8: Special Relativity Revisited
9: The Principles of General Relativity
10: The Field equations of General Relativity
11: General Relativity from a Variational Principle
12: The Energy-Momentum Tensor
13: The Structure of the Field Equations
14: The 3+1 and 2+2 Formalisms
15: The Schwarzschild sSlution
16: Classical Experimental Tests of General Relativity
D: Black Holes
17: Non-Rotating Black Holes
18: Maximal Extension and Conformal Compactification
19: Charged Black Holes
20: Rotating Black Holes
E: Gravitational Waves
21: Linearized Gravitational Waves and their Detection
22: Exact Gravitational Waves
23: Radiation from an Isolated Source
F: Cosmology
24: Relativistic Cosmology
25: The Classical Cosmological Models
26: Modern Cosmology
Answers to Exercises
Selected Bibliography
Index
Professor Ray d'Inverno is Emeritus Professor in General Relativity
at the University of Southhampton. A pioneer in the use of computer
algebra in general relativity, Professor d'Inverno developed the
early system LAM (Lisp Algebraic Manipulator), which was a
precursor to Sheep, the system most used to date in the study of
exact solutions and their invariant classification. He also
developed the 2+2 formalism for analysing the initial value problem
in general
relativity. The formalism has also been used to provide a possible
route towards a canonical quantization programme for the theory. In
addition, he worked in numerical relativity (solving Einstein's
equations numerically on a computer) and with others set up the CCM
(Cauchy-Characteristic Matching) approach, which is still used in
this increasingly important field.
James Vickers is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the
University of Southampton and has published extensively on general
relativity. His early research was on the structure of weak
singularities in relativity and more recently he has given proofs
of both the Penrose and Hawking singularity theorems for
low-regularity spacetimes. These show that the singularities
predicted by these theorems must be accompanied by unbounded
curvature. He has also worked on the asymptotic structure of
space-time and used spinors to prove the positivity of the Bondi
mass.
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