Beschreibung:
This is the second edition of a well-received book that is a modern, self-contained introduction to the theory of gravitational interactions. The new edition includes more details on gravitational waves of cosmological origin, the so-called brane world scenario, and gravitational time-delay effects.
ElementaryNotions of Relativistic Field Theory.- Towards a Relativistic Theory ofGravity.- Tensor Calculus in a Riemann Manifold.- Maxwell Equations and RiemannGeometry.- Test Bodies and Signals in a Riemann Space-Time.- Geodesic Deviationand Curvature Tensor.- The Einstein Equations for the Gravitational Field.- TheWeak-Field Approximation.- Gravitational Waves.- The Schwarzschild Solution.The Kasner Solution.- Vierbeins and Lorentz Connection.- The Dirac Equation ina Gravitational Field.- Supersymmetry and Supergravity.- Appendix A TheLanguage of Differential Forms.- Appendix B Higher-Dimensional Gravity.- References.Index.