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- Offers a modern set of notes on gravitation
- Lectures start from fundamentals and lead towards topics of current research
- Illustrated with 20 colored figures
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 952)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
- Surface charges as conserved quantities in theories of gravity;
- Classical and holographic features of three-dimensional Einstein gravity;
- Asymptotically flat spacetimes in four dimensions: BMS group and memory effects;
- The Kerr black hole: properties at extremality and quasi-normal mode ringing.
Each topic starts with historical foundations and points to a few modern research directions.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Physique théorique mathématique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Geoffrey Compère
About the author
Geoffrey Compère is a FNRS Research Associate at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. His research, as a theoretical physicist, focuses on surface charges in gravitation, the physics of black holes close to extremality, supergravity and infinite-dimensional symmetries, topics on which he has authored over 50 papers. He developed the package SurfaceCharges for Mathematica which allows to compute surface charges in gravitation coupled to matter. He is the recipient of an ERC Starting Grant addressing the holographic properties of black holes. As a member of the LISA consortium and of the Belgian Gravitational Wave Center, he is currently developing waveform models to confront General Relativity with upcoming high-precision gravitational wave observations.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advanced Lectures on General Relativity
Authors: Geoffrey Compère
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04260-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04259-2Published: 01 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04260-8Published: 31 January 2019
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 140
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Theoretical Astrophysics