General relativity; papers in honour of J. L. Synge.
By: Edited for the Royal Irish Academy by L. O'Raifeartaigh.
Contributors: Synge, J. L. 1897-; O'Raifeartaigh, L. ed.; Royal Irish Academy.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1972
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Synge, J. L. 1897-; Relativity (Physics)
Notes: "Bibliography of J. L. Synge": p. [257]-265.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Lanczos, C. Einstein's path from special to general relativity.; title: Balazs, N. L. The acceptability of physical theories: Poincaré versus Einstein.; title: Ellis, G. F. R. Global and non-global problems in cosmology, by G. F. R. Ellis and D. W. Sciama.; title: Ehlers, J. The geometry of free fall and light propagation, by J. Ehlers, F. A. E. Pirani and A. Schild.; title: Trautman, A. Invariance of Lagrangian systems.; title: Penrose, R. The geometry of impulsive gravitational waves.; title: Exact solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations for an accelerated charge.; title: Taub, A. H. Plane-symmetric similarity solutions for self-gravitating fluids.; title: Robinson, I. Equations of motion in the linear approximation, by I. Robinson and J. R. Robinson.; title: Florides, P. W. Rotating bodies in general relativity.; title: Chandrasekhar, S. A limiting case of relativistic equilibrium.; title: Israel, W. The relativistic Boltzmann equation.; title: Thompson, W. B. The self-consistent test-particle approach to relativistic kinetic theory.