General relativity and gravitation : a centennial perspective / edited by Abhay Ashtekar (The Pennsylvania State University), Beverly K. Berger (International Society for Relativity and Gravitation), James Isenberg (University of Oregon), Malcolm MacCallum (Queen Mary University of London).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ashtekar, Abhay, editor.

Berger, B. (Beverly), editor.

Isenberg, James A., editor.

MacCallum, M. A. H., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

General relativity (Physics).

Gravitation.

Physical Description:

xxi, 674 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Contents:

100 years of general relativity / George F.R. Ellis

Was Einstein right?: a centenary assessment / Clifford M. Will

Cosmology / David Wands, Misao Sasaki, Eiichiro Komatsu, Roy Maartens and Malcolm A.H. MacCallum

Relativistic astrophysics / Peter Schneider, Ramesh Narayan, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Peter Mészáros and Martin J. Rees

Receiving gravitational waves / Beverly K. Berger, Karsten Danzmann, Gabriela Gonzalez, Andrea Lommen, Guido Mueller, Albrecht Rüdiger and William Joseph Weber

Sources of gravitational waves: theory and observations / Alessandra Buonanno and B.S. Sathyaprakash

Probing strong field gravity through numerical simulations / Frans Pretorius, Matthew W. Choptuik and Luis Lehner

The initial data and the Einstein constraint equations / Gregory J. Galloway, Pengzi Miao and Richard Schoen

Global behavior of solutions to Einstein's equations / Stefanos Aretakis, James Isenberg, Vincent Moncrief and Igor Rodnianski

Quantum fields in curved space-times / Stefan Hollands and Robert M. Wald

From general relativity to quantum gravity / Abhay Ashtekar, Martin Reuter and Carlo Rovelli

Quantum gravity via supersymmetry and holography / Henriette Elvang and Gary T. Horowitz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107037311

110703731X

OCLC:

899229528