General relativity; papers in honour of J. L. Synge /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Royal Irish Academy
Other Authors: Synge, J. L. (John Lighton), 1897-1995, O'Raifeartaigh, L. (Lochlainn)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1972.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Lanczos, C. Einstein's path from special to general relativity
  • Balazs, N. L. The acceptability of physical theories: Poincare versus Einstein
  • Ellis, G. F. R. Global and non-global problems in cosmology, by G. F. R. Ellis and D. W. Sciama
  • Ehlers, J. The geometry of free fall and light propagation, by J. Ehlers, F. A. E. Pirani and A. Schild
  • Trautman, A. Invariance of Lagrangian systems
  • Penrose, R. The geometry of impulsive gravitational waves
  • Exact solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations for an accelerated charge
  • Taub, A. H. Plane-symmetric similarity solutions for self-gravitating fluids
  • Robinson, I. Equations of motion in the linear approximation, by I. Robinson and J. R. Robinson
  • Florides, P. W. Rotating bodies in general relativity
  • Chandrasekhar, S. A limiting case of relativistic equilibrium
  • Israel, W. The relativistic Boltzmann equation
  • Thompson, W. B. The self-consistent test-particle approach to relativistic kinetic theory.