Spacetime and geometry: the Alfred Schild lectures

Why is the universe so symmetrical? / Dennis Sciama -- Null congruences and Plebanski-Schild spaces / Ivor Robinson -- Linearization stability / Dieter Brill -- Nonlinear model field theories based on harmonic mappings / Charles W. Misner -- Gravitational fields in general relativity / Roy F. Kerr -...

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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin Univ. of Tex. Press 1982
Edition:1. ed.
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Summary:Why is the universe so symmetrical? / Dennis Sciama -- Null congruences and Plebanski-Schild spaces / Ivor Robinson -- Linearization stability / Dieter Brill -- Nonlinear model field theories based on harmonic mappings / Charles W. Misner -- Gravitational fields in general relativity / Roy F. Kerr -- On the potential barriers surrounding the Schwarzschild black hole / S. Chandrasekhar -- The initial value problem and beyond / James W. York, Jr. and Tsvi Piran.
Physical Description:X, 189 S. graph. Darst.
ISBN:0292775679

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