| Titre : |
General Relativity and Gravitation : A Centennial Perspective |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Abhay Ashtekar, Éditeur scientifique ; Beverly K. Berger, Éditeur scientifique ; James Isenberg, Éditeur scientifique ; Malcolm MacCallum, Éditeur scientifique |
| Editeur : |
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press |
| Année de publication : |
2020 |
| Importance : |
XXI-674 P. |
| Présentation : |
Broche, couv. ill en coul. : fig., graph, ill. |
| Format : |
24 cm |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-1-108-81024-1 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
04.00 General relativity and gravitation
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| Mots-clés : |
General relativity Gravitational waves Gravitation astrophysics History of science |
| Index. décimale : |
04.00 |
| Résumé : |
Part I. Einstein's Triumph: 1. 100 years of general relativity George F. R. Ellis. - 2. Was Einstein right? Clifford M. Will. - 3. Cosmology David Wands, Misao Sasaki, Eiichiro Komatsu, Roy Maartens and Malcolm A. H. MacCallum. - 4. Relativistic astrophysics Peter Schneider, Ramesh Narayan, Jeffrey E. McClintock, Peter Mészáros and Martin J. Rees. - Part II. New Window on the Universe: 5. Receiving gravitational waves Beverly K. Berger, Karsten Danzmann, Gabriela Gonzalez, Andrea Lommen, Guido Mueller, Albrecht Rüdiger and William Joseph Weber. - 6. Sources of gravitational waves. Theory and observations Alessandra Buonanno and B. S. Sathyaprakash. - Part III. Gravity is Geometry, After All: 7. Probing strong field gravity through numerical simulations Frans Pretorius, Matthew W. Choptuik and Luis Lehner. - 8. The initial value problem of general relativity and its implications Gregory J. Galloway, Pengzi Miao and Richard Schoen. - 9. Global behavior of solutions to Einstein's equations Stefanos Aretakis, James Isenberg, Vincent Moncrief and Igor Rodnianski. - Part IV. Beyond Einstein: 10. Quantum fields in curved space-times Stefan Hollands and Robert M. Wald. - 11. From general relativity to quantum gravity Abhay Ashtekar, Martin Reuter and Carlo Rovelli. - 12. Quantum gravity via unification Henriette Elvang and Gary T. Horowitz. |
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