- Offers a modern set of notes on gravitation
- Lectures start from fundamentals and lead towards topics of current research
- Illustrated with 20 colored figures
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- About this book
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These lecture notes are intended for starting PhD students in theoretical physics who have a working knowledge of General Relativity. The four topics covered are:
- 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.
- Surface charges as conserved quantities in theories of gravity;
- About the authors
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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.
- Reviews
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“In accordance with the author’s aim to target young PhD students in physics or postdocs, these lecture notes have definitely been written in the language and style of physicists.” (Gabor Etesi, zbMath 1419.83003, 2019)
- Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Surface Charges in Gravitation
Pages 1-33
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Three Dimensional Einstein’s Gravity
Pages 35-79
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Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes
Pages 81-102
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Rotating Black Holes
Pages 103-140
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Advanced Lectures on General Relativity
- Authors
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- Geoffrey Compère
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes in Physics
- Series Volume
- 952
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-04260-8
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-04260-8
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-04259-2
- Series ISSN
- 0075-8450
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 140
- Number of Illustrations
- 2 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
- Topics
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