The Confrontation Between General Relativity and Experiment

DOI10.1007/978-90-481-3735-0_6zbMath1201.83001arXivgr-qc/0103036OpenAlexW3000512466WikidataQ61603290 ScholiaQ61603290MaRDI QIDQ3055500

Clifford M. Will

Publication date: 8 November 2010

Published in: Living Reviews in Relativity, Astrophysics and Space Science Library (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0103036

zbMATH Keywords

special relativityEinstein's equivalence principleEőtvős experimentgravitational redshift experimentgravitational wave dampingHulse-Taylor binary pulsar

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Black holes (83C57) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Gravitational waves (83C35) Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25)

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