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General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics

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  • © 1988

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Authors:
  1. Norbert Straumann

    1. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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Part of the book series: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (TMP)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Differential Geometry

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3
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    2. Differentiable Manifolds

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      Pages 4-8

    3. Tangent Vectors, Vector and Tensor Fields

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      Pages 9-20

    4. The Lie Derivative

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      Pages 21-26

    5. Differential Forms

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      Pages 27-46

    6. Affine Connections

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      Pages 47-74

  3. General Theory of Relativity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. Introduction

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      Pages 77-80

    3. The Principle of Equivalence

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      Pages 81-122

    4. Einstein’s Field Equations

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      Pages 123-165

    5. The Schwarzschild Solution and Classical Tests of General Relativity

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      Pages 166-213

    6. Weak Gravitational Fields

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      Pages 214-241

    7. The Post-Newtonian Approximation

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      Pages 242-276

  4. Relativistic Astrophysics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 277-279
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    2. Neutron Stars

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      Pages 280-360

    3. Rotating Black Holes

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      Pages 361-372

    4. Binary X-Ray Sources

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      Pages 373-387

    5. Accretion onto Black Holes and Neutron Stars

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      Pages 388-440

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 441-459
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About this book

In 1979 I gave graduate courses at the University of Zurich and lectured in the 'Troisieme Cycle de la Suisse Romande' (a consortium offour uni­ versities in the french-speaking part of Switzerland), and these lectures were the basis of the 'Springer Lecture Notes in Physics', Volume 150, published in 1981. This text appeared in German, because there have been few modern expositions of the general theory of relativity in the mother tongue of its only begetter. Soon after the book appeared, W. Thirring asked me to prepare an English edition for the 'Texts and Mono­ graphs in Physics'. Fortunately E. Borie agreed to translate the original German text into English. An excellent collaboration allowed me to re­ vise and add to the contents of the book. I have updated and improved the original text and have added a number of new sections, mostly on astrophysical topics. In particular, in collaboration with M. Camenzind I have included a chapter on spherical and disk accretion onto compact objects. This book divides into three parts. Part I develops the mathematical tools used in the general theory of relativity. Since I wanted to keep this part short, but reasonably self-contained, I have adopted the dry style of most modern mathematical texts. Readers who have never before been confronted with differential geometry will find the exposition too ab­ stract and will miss motivations of the basic concepts and constructions.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Norbert Straumann

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