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Exact Space-Times in Einstein's General Relativiy

Jerry B. Griffiths and Jiří Podolsky
Publisher: 
Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 
2009
Number of Pages: 
525
Format: 
Hardcover
Series: 
Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics
Price: 
125.00
ISBN: 
9780521889278
Category: 
Monograph
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Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Basic tools and concepts; 3. Minkowski space-time; 4. de Sitter space-time; 5. Anti-de Sitter space-time; 6. Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker space-times; 7. Electrovacuum and related background space-times; 8. Schwarzchild space-time; 9. Space-times related to Schwarzchild; 10. Static axially symmetric space-times; 11. Rotating black holes; 12. Taub-NUT space-time; 13. Stationary, axially symmetric space-times; 14. Accelerating black holes; 15. Further solutions for uniformly accelerating particles; 16. Plebański-Demiański solutions; 17. Plane and pp-waves; 18. Kundt solutions; 19. Robinson-Trautman solutions; 20. Impulsive waves; 21. Colliding plane waves; 22. A final miscellany; Appendix A. 2-spaces of constant curvature; Appendix B. 3-spaces of constant curvature; References; Index.