General Relativity: Black hole astrophysicsW. Israel, Hawking, Stephen W. Hawking |
Contents
An introduction to the theory of the Kerr metric and | 7 |
The initial value problem and the dynamical formulation | 138 |
Global structure of spacetimes | 212 |
The general theory of the mechanical electromagnetic | 294 |
An introduction to the theory of the Kerr metric and | 370 |
References | 455 |
Index | 480 |
5 | 528 |
Cosmology and the early universe 518 | 518 |
Anisotropic and inhomogeneous relativistic cosmologies | 533 |
Singularities and timeasymmetry | 581 |
Quantum field theory in curved spacetime | 639 |
the new synthesis | 680 |
The pathintegral approach to quantum gravity | 746 |
Ultraviolet divergences in quantum theories of gravitation | 790 |
References | 833 |
Part 2 | 433 |
The confrontation between gravitation theory | 439 |
443 | |
Index | 451 |
Black hole astrophysics 454 | 454 |
The big bang cosmology enigmas and nostrums 504 | 504 |
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