Spacetime and geometry
Subtitle: the Alfred Schild lectures
By: edited by Richard A. Matzner and L.C. Shepley.
Contributors: Schild, Alfred, 1921-; Shepley, Lawrence C., 1939-; Matzner, Richard A. 1942-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: General relativity (Physics) -- Addresses, essays, lectures; Gravitation -- Addresses, essays, lectures; Space and time -- Addresses, essays, lectures; Geometry -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Why is the universe so symmetrical? / Dennis Sciama; title: Null congruences and Plebanski-Schild spaces / Ivor Robinson; title: Linearization stability / Dieter Brill; title: Nonlinear model field theories based on harmonic mappings / Charles W. Misner; title: Gravitational fields in general relativity / Roy F. Kerr; title: On the potential barriers surrounding the Schwarzschild black hole / Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar; title: The initial value problem and beyond / James W. York, Jr. and Tsvi Piran.