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Gravitation and Experiment

Poincaré Seminar 2006

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Authors:
  1. Thibault Damour

    1. Institut des Hautes études Scientifiques, Route des Chartres, Bures-sur-Yvette, France

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  2. Bertrand Duplantier

    1. Service de Physique Théorique, Orme des Merisiers CEA - Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France

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  3. Vincent Rivasseau

    1. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Université Paris XI, Orsay Cedex, France

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  • Detailed pedagogical introduction to general relativity
  • Review of experimental tests of the theory
  • Very recent results of the Gravity Probe B mission
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Progress in Mathematical Physics (PMP, volume 52)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. General Relativity today

    • Thibault Damour
    Pages 1-49

  3. Beyond Einstein’s Gravity

    • Ignatios Antoniadis
    Pages 51-67

  4. The Double Pulsar

    • Michael Kramer
    Pages 69-100

  5. Testing Einstein in Space: The Gravity Probe B Relativity Mission

    • John Mester, the GP-B Collaboration
    Pages 101-109

  6. Instruments for Gravitational Wave Astronomy on Ground and in Space

    • Jean-Yves Vinet
    Pages 111-138
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About this book

This book is the sixth in a series of lectures of the S´ eminaire Poincar´ e,whichis directed towards a large audience of physicists and of mathematicians. The goal of this seminar is to provide up-to-date information about general topics of great interest in physics. Both the theoretical and experimental aspects are covered, with some historical background. Inspired by the Bourbaki seminar in mathematics in its organization, hence nicknamed “Bourbaphi”, the Poincar´ e Seminar is held twice a year at the Institut Henri Poincar´ e in Paris, with cont- butions prepared in advance. Particular care is devoted to the pedagogical nature of the presentations so as to ful?ll the goal of being readable by a large audience of scientists. This volume contains the ninth such Seminar, held in 2006. It is devoted to Relativity and Experiment. This book starts with a detailed introduction to general relativity by T. Damour. It includes a review of what may lie beyond by string theorist I. - toniadis, and collects up-to-date essays on the experimental tests of this theory. General relativity is now a theory well con?rmed by detailed experiments, incl- ing the precise timing of the double pulsar J0737-3039 explained by M. Kramer, member of the team which discovered it in 2003, and satellite missions such as Gravity Probe B described by J. Mester. The search for detecting gravitational waves is also very much under way as reviewed by J.Y. Vinet. Wehopethatthecontinuedpublicationofthisserieswillservethecommunity of physicists and mathematicians at professional or graduate student level.

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“The Poincaré Seminar is held at the Institute Henri Poincaré in Paris twice a year. This volume contains lectures presented at the Poincaré Seminar focused on Gravitation and Experiment which took place in October 2006. The editors made particular effort to present the chosen topics in a pedagogical form accessible to mathematicians and physicists not only at the professional level but also at graduate student level.” (Vojtěch Pravda, Applications of Mathematics, Vol. 54 (6), 2009)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institut des Hautes études Scientifiques, Route des Chartres, Bures-sur-Yvette, France

    Thibault Damour

  • Service de Physique Théorique, Orme des Merisiers CEA - Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France

    Bertrand Duplantier

  • Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Université Paris XI, Orsay Cedex, France

    Vincent Rivasseau

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Gravitation and Experiment

  • Book Subtitle: Poincaré Seminar 2006

  • Authors: Thibault Damour, Bertrand Duplantier, Vincent Rivasseau

  • Series Title: Progress in Mathematical Physics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8524-8

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Basel 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-8523-1Published: 16 August 2007

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-7643-8524-8Published: 12 October 2007

  • Series ISSN: 1544-9998

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-1846

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 138

  • Topics: Classical Mechanics

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