Einstein's General Theory of Relativity: With Modern Applications in Cosmology (en Inglés) - Grøn, Øyvind; Hervik, Sigbjørn

This book is the second edition of the well-received textbook on the theory of general relativity by Øyvind G. Grøn and Sigbjørn Hervik. It introduces the general theory of relativity and includes applications to cosmology. The reader is given an updated introduction to general relativity including the most recent developments in cosmology. The book contains a thorough introduction to tensor calculus and curved manifolds. After the necessary mathematical tools are introduced, the book provides a thorough presentation of the theory of relativity including a chapter on gravitational waves. The most important additions in the second edition are included there. The section on anisotropic cosmological models is expanded and updated, presenting an anisotropic generalization of our present standard model of the universe the CDM universe model. In addition an introduction to Noether s theorem within classical mechanics is added in chapter 1.