Canonical Gravity and Applications: Cosmology, Black Holes, and Quantum Gravity
- 作者
- 出版社 Cambridge University Press
- 出版时间 2010年12月
- ISBN 0521195756 或 9780521195751
- 定价 744.60
内容简介
Canonicalmethodsareapowerfulmathematicaltoolwithinthefieldofgravitationalresearch,boththeoreticalandexperimental,andhavecontributedtoanumberofrecentdevelopmentsinphysics.Providingmathematicalfoundationsaswellasphysicalapplications,thisisthefirstsystematicexplanationofcanonicalmethodsingravity.Thebookdiscussesthemathematicalandgeometricalnotionsunderlyingcanonicaltools,highlightingtheirapplicationsinallaspectsofgravitationalresearchfromadvancedmathematicalfoundationstomodernapplicationsincosmologyandblackholephysics.Themaincanonicalformulations,includingtheArnowitt-Deser-Misner(ADM)formalismandAshtekarvariables,arederivedanddiscussed.Idealforbothgraduatestudentsandresearchers,thisbookprovidesalinkbetweenstandardintroductionstogeneralrelativityandadvancedexpositionsofblackholephysics,theoreticalcosmologyorquantumgravity.
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