Gravitation as a Plastic Distortion of the Lorentz Vacuum
Authors: Fernández, Virginia Velma, Rodrigues, Jr, Waldyr A.
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- Explicitly demonstrates advantages over previous descriptions of the gravitational field
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Addressing graduate students and researchers in theoretical physics and mathematics, this book presents a new formulation of the theory of gravity. In the new approach the gravitational field has the same ontology as the electromagnetic, strong, and weak fields. In other words it is a physical field living in Minkowski spacetime. Some necessary new mathematical concepts are introduced and carefully explained. Then they are used to describe the deformation of geometries, the key to describing the gravitational field as a plastic deformation of the Lorentz vacuum. It emerges after further analysis that the theory provides trustworthy energy-momentum and angular momentum conservation laws, a feature that is normally lacking in General Relativity.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-12
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Multiforms, Extensors, Canonical and Metric Clifford Algebras
Pages 13-32
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Multiform Functions and Multiform Functionals
Pages 33-46
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Multiform and Extensor Calculus on Manifolds
Pages 47-74
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Gravitation as Plastic Distortion of the Lorentz Vacuum
Pages 75-81
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Gravitation as a Plastic Distortion of the Lorentz Vacuum
- Authors
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- Virginia Velma Fernández
- Waldyr A. Rodrigues, Jr
- Series Title
- Fundamental Theories of Physics
- Series Volume
- 168
- Copyright
- 2010
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-642-13589-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-642-13589-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-13588-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-26485-6
- Series ISSN
- 0168-1222
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 154
- Number of Illustrations
- 3 b/w illustrations
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