General Relativity: Black hole astrophysics

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W. Israel, Hawking, Stephen W. Hawking
Cambridge University Press, 2010 - Black holes (Astronomy) - 919 pages
 

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
References
443
Index
451
Black hole astrophysics 454
454
The big bang cosmology enigmas and nostrums 504
504
Gravitationalradiation experiments
846
1
854
2
896
Index
903
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