Gravity, a Geometrical Course

DOI10.1007/978-94-007-5361-7zbMath1259.83001OpenAlexW4240834732WikidataQ55879068 ScholiaQ55879068MaRDI QIDQ4647612

Pietro Giuseppe Fré

Publication date: 6 November 2012

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5361-7

zbMATH Keywords

EinsteinhomologySchwarzschildgeneral relativitygravitational wavesconnectionsYang-Mills fieldClifford algebraspecial relativityhomotopyLorentz groupfiber bundlesWeyl spinorsEhresmann connectionsDirac matricesMajoranatest particlestellar equilibriumChandrasekhar mass limitmagnet monopoles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Black holes (83C57) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Special relativity (83A05) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60) Galactic and stellar structure (85A15) Clifford algebras, spinors (15A66) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Gravitational waves (83C35) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-01)

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