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Author Valiente Kroon, Juan A., 1972- author.

Title Conformal methods in general relativity / Juan A. Valiente Kroon
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 594 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics
Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics.
Contents Differential geometry -- Spacetime spinors -- Space spinors -- Conformal extensions of exact solutions -- Asymptotic simplicity -- The conformal Einstein field equations -- Matter models -- Asymptotics -- The conformal constraint equations -- Methods of the theory of hyperbolic differential equations -- Hyperbolic reductions -- Causality and the Cauchy problem in general relativity -- De Sitter-like spacetimes -- Minkowski-like spacetimes -- Anti-de Sitter-like spacetimes -- Characteristic problems for the conformal field equations -- Static solutions -- Spatial infinity -- Perspectives
Summary A systematic and self-contained account, which adopts a geometric approach to study the solutions of Einstein's theory of gravity
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject General relativity (Physics) -- Mathematics
Geometry, Differential.
Conformal mapping.
Conformal geometry.
Einstein field equations -- Numerical solutions.
Space and time.
SCIENCE -- Energy.
SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
SCIENCE -- Physics -- General.
Conformal geometry
Conformal mapping
Einstein field equations -- Numerical solutions
General relativity (Physics) -- Mathematics
Geometry, Differential
Space and time
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
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