Spacetime And Geometry
200 pages, 6 x 9
Paperback
Release Date:01 May 1982
ISBN:9780292741386
Spacetime And Geometry
The Alfred Schild Lectures
Edited by Richard A. Matzner and L. C. Shepley
University of Texas Press
These reports, at the forefront of relativity theory when they were written, in particular the geometrical aspects of spacetime theory, were the result of the Alfred Schild Memorial Lecture Series presented at the University of Texas at Austin beginning in 1977. Each article is a self-contained summary of an important area of contemporary gravitational physics, while the book as a whole provides an overview of a wide variety of the problems of general relativity and gravitation.
Richard A. Matzner and L. C. Shepley were professors of physics at the University of Texas at Austin.
- Preface
- 1. Why Is the Universe So Symmetrical? (Dennis Sciama)
- 2. Null Congruences and Plebanski-Schild Spaces (Ivor Robinson)
- 3. Linearization Stability (Dieter Brill)
- 4. Nonlinear Model Field Theories Based on Harmonic Mappings (Charles W. Misner)
- 5. Gravitational Fields in General Relativity (Roy P. Kerr)
- 6. On the Potential Barriers Surrounding the Schwarzschild Black Hole
- (Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar)
- 7. The Initial Value Problem and Beyond (James W. York, Jr., and Tsvi Piran)
- Notes on Contributors
- Index to Works Cited
- Index of Topics
