Spacetime and geometry : the Alfred Schild lectures / edited by Richard A. Matzner and L.C. Shepley. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 1982. - x, 189 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Why is the universe so symmetrical? / Dennis Sciama -- Null congruences and Plebanski-Schild spaces / Ivor Robinson -- Linearization stability / Dieter Brill -- Nonlinear model field theories based on harmonic mappings / Charles W. Misner -- Gravitational fields in general relativity / Roy F. Kerr -- On the potential barriers surrounding the Schwarzschild black hole / Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar -- The initial value problem and beyond / James W. York, Jr. and Tsvi Piran.

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General relativity (Physics)
Gravitation.
Space and time.
Geometry.

QC173.6 / .S67 1982

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