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010 $a 2013938191
020 $a9780199680696
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020 $z9780191501883 (electronic bk.)
020 $z0191501883 (electronic bk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn852231287
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050 00 $aQC173.6$b.B368 2013
082 04 $a530.11$223
100 1 $aBarrabes, Claude,$eauthor.
245 10 $aAdvanced general relativity :$bgravity waves, spinning particles, and black holes /$cC. Barrabès, Université de Tours, P.A. Hogan, University College Dublin.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aOxford, United Kingdom ;$aNew York, NY, United States of America :$bOxford University Press,$c2013.
264 4 $c©2013
300 $aviii, 144 pages :$billustrations ;$c26 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aInternational series of monographs on physics ;$v160
490 1 $aOxford science publications
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 137-141) and index.
505 0 $aMachine generated contents note: 1.Minkowskian space-time -- 1.1.Lorentz tansformations -- 1.2.Non-singular and singular Lorentz transformations -- 1.3.Infinitesimal Lorentz transformations -- 1.4.Geometrical construction of a gravitational wave -- 2.Plane gravitational waves -- 2.1.From linear approximation to colliding waves -- 2.2.Electromagnetic shock waves -- 2.3.Gravitational shock waves -- 2.4.High-frequency gravity waves -- 3.Equations of motion -- 3.1.Motivation -- 3.2.Example of a background space-time -- 3.3.Equations of motion of a Reissner-Nordstrom particle in first approximation -- 3.4.Background space-time for a Kerr particle -- 3.5.Equations of motion of a Kerr particle in first approximation -- 3.6.Spinning test particles -- 4.Inhomogeneous aspects of cosmology -- 4.1.Plane-fronted gravitational waves with a cosmological constant -- 4.2.Perturbations of isotropic cosmologies -- 4.3.Gravitational waves -- 4.4.Cosmic background radiation -- 5.Black holes -- 5.1.Introduction: Basic properties of black holes -- 5.2.Collapsing null shells and trapped surface formation -- 5.3.Scattering properties of high-speed Kerr black holes -- 5.4.Inside the black hole -- 5.5.Metric fluctuations and Hawking radiation -- 6.Higher dimensional black holes -- 6.1.Brief outline of D-dimensional black holes -- 6.2.Gibbons-Penrose isoperimetric inequality and the hoop conjecture in D dimensions -- 6.3.Light-like boost of higher dimensional black holes.
650 0 $aGeneral relativity (Physics)
650 0 $aGravity waves.
650 0 $aBlack holes (Astronomy)
650 7 $aBlack holes (Astronomy)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00833708
650 7 $aGeneral relativity (Physics)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00939815
650 7 $aGravity waves.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00946926
700 1 $aHogan, P. A.$q(Peter A.),$eauthor.
830 0 $aInternational series of monographs on physics (Oxford, England) ;$v160.
830 0 $aOxford science publications.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1512/2013938191-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1512/2013938191-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1512/2013938191-t.html