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Black holes, cosmology and extra dimensions /

Bronnikov, Kirill A.

Black holes, cosmology and extra dimensions / Kirill A. Bronnikov, Sergey G. Rubin. - Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2013. - xiv, 427 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-424) and index.

Modern ideas of gravitation and cosmology: a brief essay -- Gravitation. Fundamentals of general relativity ; Spherically symmetric space-times. Black holes ; Black holes under more general conditions ; Wormholes ; Stability of spherically symmetric configurations -- Cosmology. Stages of the universe's evolution ; Field dynamics in the inflationary period ; The large-scale structure -- Extra dimensions. Multidimensional gravity ; The emergence of physical laws.

9789814374200 (cloth)

2012554585


General relativity (Physics)
Special relativity (Physics)
Black holes (Astronomy)
Wormholes (Physics)
Gravitation.
Cosmology.

QC173.6 / .B76 2013

523.1
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