General relativity with applications to astrophysics /
Norbert Straumann.
- Berlin : New York : Springer, 2004
- xii, 674 p. ill. ; 25 cm.
Revised translation of: Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie und relativistische Astrophysik.
1. The general theory of relativity: physics in external gravitational fields.- 2. Einstein's field equations.- 3. Applications of general relativity.- 4. The schwarzschild solution and classical tests of general relativity.- 5. Weak gravitational fields.- 6. The post-newtonian approximation.- 7. White dwarfs and neutron stars.- 8. Black holes.- 9. Differential geometry: differentiable manifolds.- 10. Tangent vectors, vector and tensor fields.- 11. The lie derivative.- 12. Differential forms.- 13. Affine connections.- 14. Some details.- 15. References.- 16. Index.
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