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Conformal methods in general relativity / Juan A. Valiente Kroon.
Math/Physics/Astronomy Library QC173.6 .V35 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Valiente Kroon, Juan A., 1972- author.
- Series:
- Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics
- Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- General relativity (Physics)--Mathematics.
- General relativity (Physics).
- Geometry, Differential.
- Conformal mapping.
- Conformal geometry.
- Einstein field equations--Numerical solutions.
- Einstein field equations.
- Space and time.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 594 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- Differential geometry
- Spacetime spinors
- Space spinors
- Conformal extensions of exact solutions
- Asymptotic simplicity
- The conformal Einstein field equations
- Matter models
- Asymptotics
- The conformal constraint equations
- Methods of the theory of hyperbolic differential equations
- Hyperbolic reductions
- Causality and the Cauchy problem in general relativity
- De Sitter-like spacetimes
- Minkowski-like spacetimes
- Anti-de Sitter-like spacetimes
- Characteristic problems for the conformal field equations
- Static solutions
- Spatial infinity
- Perspectives.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 569-586) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107033894
- 1107033896
- OCLC:
- 936532101
- Publisher Number:
- 99969702111
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