Spacetime and geometry : the Alfred Schild lectures

Author(s)

• Schild, Alfred
• Shepley, Lawrence C.
• Matzner, Richard A. (Richard Alfred)

Bibliographic Information

Spacetime and geometry : the Alfred Schild lectures

edited by Richard A. Matzner and L.C. Shepley

University of Texas Press, 1982

1st ed

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Contents of Works

• Why is the universe so symmetrical? / Dennis Sciama
• Null congruences and Plebanski-Schild spaces / Ivor Robinson
• Linearization stability / Dieter Brill
• Nonlinear model field theories based on harmonic mappings / Charles W. Misner
• Gravitational fields in general relativity / Roy F. Kerr
• On the potential barriers surrounding the Schwarzschild black hole / Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
• The initial value problem and beyond / James W. York, Jr. and Tsvi Piran

Details

• NCID: BA07864963
• ISBN:
  • 0292775679
• LCCN: 81011488
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Austin
• Pages/Volumes: x, 189 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QC173.6
  • DC19 : 530.1/1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : General relativity (Physics) -- Addresses, essays, lectures
  • LCSH : Gravitation -- Addresses, essays, lectures
  • LCSH : Space and time -- Addresses, essays, lectures
  • LCSH : Geometry -- Addresses, essays, lectures