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Record Nr.

UNINA9910257459603321

Titolo

Methods of Local and Global Differential Geometry in General Relativity [[electronic resource] ] : Proceedings of the Regional Conference on Relativity held at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 13–17, 1970 / / edited by D. Farnsworth, J. Fink, J. Porter, A. Thompson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1972

ISBN

3-540-37434-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 1972.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 191 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 14

Disciplina

531

Soggetti

Mechanics

Classical Mechanics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Techniques of topology and differential geometry in general relativity -- A simple derivation of the general redshift formula -- Some remarks on a radiating solution of the Einstein-Maxwell equations -- Conservation laws on manifolds -- Structure of singularities -- Lattice transformations and charge quantization -- On an Einstein-Maxwell field with a null source -- The luminosity of a collapsing star -- A class of inextendible Weyl solutions -- Scaling in function spaces -- On the spherical symmetry of a static perfect fluid -- Differentiable manifolds with singularities -- Non-vacuum ADaM field equations -- General relativity as a dynamical system on the manifold a of Riemannian metrics which cover diffeomorphisms.