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  title info:
    title: Advanced general relativity
    sub title: gravity waves, spinning particles, and black holes
  name:
    name part: Barrabes, Claude
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Hogan, P. A. (Peter A.)
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: This volume covers mainstream topics at research level involving gravitational waves, spinning particles, and black holes suitable for graduates and early postgraduates exploring avenues into research in general relativity.
  table of contents: Cover; Contents; 1 Minkowskian space-time; 1.1 Lorentz tansformations; 1.2 Non-singular and singular Lorentz transformations; 1.3 Infinitesimal Lorentz transformations; 1.4 Geometrical construction of a gravitational wave; 2 Plane gravitational waves; 2.1 From linear approximation to colliding waves; 2.2 Electromagnetic shock waves; 2.3 Gravitational shock waves; 2.4 High-frequency gravity waves; 3 Equations of motion; 3.1 Motivation; 3.2 Example of a background space-time; 3.3 Equations of motion of a Reissner-Nordstrom particle in first approximation
  table of contents: 3.4 Background space-time for a Kerr particle3.5 Equations of motion of a Kerr particle in first approximation; 3.6 Spinning test particles; 4 Inhomogeneous aspects of cosmology; 4.1 Plane-fronted gravitational waves with a cosmological constant; 4.2 Perturbations of isotropic cosmologies; 4.3 Gravitational waves; 4.4 Cosmic background radiation; 5 Black holes; 5.1 Introduction: Basic properties of black holes; 5.2 Collapsing null shells and trapped surface formation; 5.3 Scattering properties of high-speed Kerr black holes; 5.4 Inside the black hole
  table of contents: 5.5 Metric fiuctuations and Hawking radiation6 Higher dimensional black holes; 6.1 Brief outline of D-dimensional black holes; 6.2 Gibbons-Penrose isoperimetric inequality and the hoop conjecture in D dimensions; 6.3 Light-like boost of higher dimensional black holes; Appendix A Notation; Appendix B Transport law for k along r =0; Appendix C Some useful scalar products; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; w; Z
  note: Claude Barrabes, Peter A. Hogan.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  note: English.
  subject:
    topic: General relativity (Physics)
  subject:
    topic: Relativité générale (Physique)
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Physics
    topic: Relativity
  subject:
    topic: General relativity (Physics)
  classification: QC173.6
  classification: 530.11
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    title info:
      title: Advanced general relativity
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      name part: Barrabes, Claude.
    identifier: (OCoLC)829055564
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    identifier: (DLC) 2013938191
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    title info:
      title: International series of monographs on physics ; 160
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    record creation date: 130604
    record change date: 20260318192128.4
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      language term: eng