Overview
- Covers all the basic aspects of General Relativity and Cosmology in a clear and consistent manner
- Represents an ideal introductory text for advanced undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students
- Reports all calculations in detail, with particular emphasis on astrophysical applications
Part of the book series: UNITEXT for Physics (UNITEXTPH)
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Keywords
- Cosmological equations
- Cosmology as an application of General Relativity
- Foundation of General relativity
- Gravitational field equations
- Metric of spacetime
- Relativistic Astrophysics and applications
- Relativistic astrophysics
- Scalar tensor theories
- Spherical Hydrostatic equilibrium
- Static Cosmological Models
- Tensor calculus
- The Schwarzschild solution
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Mariafelicia De Laurentis is Associate Professor at Tomsk State Pedagogical University, (Russia). Actually she is visiting Professor at Institute for Theoretical Physics, Goethe University of Frankfurt, (Germany) involved in BlackHoleCam project (https://blackholecam.org).  Dr. De Laurentis has a wide range of research interests in Physics, Cosmology, Relativistic Astrophysics, General Relativity and Alternative Theories of Gravity, and is the lead or co-author of more than 150 scientific publications. In 2008 she got the "Quality Award" at the Polytechnic of Turin for the best PhD thesis and publications. In 2012 she was awarded the SIGRAV (Italian Society of Gravitational Physics) Prize for contributions to General Relativity and Gravitational Physics. Finally in 2016, she got TUSUR Prize, for recognition of invaluablecontribution to Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radio-electronics.Â
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: General Relativity and Cosmology
Book Subtitle: A Primer
Authors: Salvatore Capozziello, Mariafelicia De Laurentis
Series Title: UNITEXT for Physics
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-32746-4Due: 11 August 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-32748-8Due: 11 August 2024
Series ISSN: 2198-7882
Series E-ISSN: 2198-7890
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 400
Number of Illustrations: 50 b/w illustrations