Libro Colliding Plane Waves in General Relativity (Dover Books on Physics) De J.B. Griffiths

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Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Dover Publications Inc.

Autor

J.B. Griffiths

Año

2016

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

256

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9780486801216

Categorías

Física matemática

Colliding Plane Waves in General Relativity (Dover Books on Physics)

J.b. Griffiths (Autor) · Dover Publications Inc. · Tapa Blanda

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This monograph surveys recent research on the collision and interaction of gravitational and electromagnetic waves. "This is a particularly important topic in general relativity," the author notes, "since the theory predicts that there will be a nonlinear interaction between such waves." Geared toward graduate students and researchers in general relativity, the text offers a comprehensive and unified review of the vast literature on the subject.The first eight chapters offer background, presenting the field equations and discussing some qualitative aspects of their solution. Subsequent chapters explore further exact solutions for colliding plane gravitational waves and the collision and interaction of electromagnetic waves. The final chapters summarize all related results for the collision of plane waves of different types and in non-flat backgrounds. A new postscript updates developments since the book's initial 1991 publication.