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.