Gravitation for Theorists

von Piljin Yi

340 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Intended for graduate and advanced undergraduate students, this textbook is a thoroughly modern introduction to and a self-contained treatise on the theoretical and mathematical fundamentals of General Relativity. The chapters are organized into three parts, with the first covering Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism, the relativistic Kepler problem, and the systematics of the underlying geometry, with the more abstract notion of the fibre bundle relegated to the Appendix. The second part begins with a derivation of the Einstein equations and leads to topics such as cosmology, black holes, causal structures, and action principles. The third part covers the canonical formulation of field theory in general and General Relativity in particular, leading to the concept of the total energy in General Relativity and quantum phenomena with event horizons. The book minimizes historical references, focuses on modern tools, examples, and applications, and emphasizes the commonalities between relativistic gravity and gauge theory.

• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Astronomie, Raum und Zeit Kosmologie und das Universum
• ISBN: 9781009575645
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.03.2026
• Größe: 250 x 175 mm
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press