General Relativity: an Einstein Centenary Survey

by W. Israel (Editor), S. W. Hawking (Editor)

Contents:
-- An introductory survey / S.W. Hawking and W. Israel
-- The confrontation between gravitation theory and experiment / C.M. Will
-- Gravitational-radiation experiments / D.H. Douglass and V.B. Braginsky
-- The initial value problem and the dynamical formulation of general relativity / A.E. Fischer and J.E. Marsden
-- Global structure of spacetimes / R. Geroch and G.T. Horowitz -- The general theory of the mechanical, electromagnetic and thermodynamic properties of black holes / B. Carter
-- An introduction to the theory of the Kerr metric and its perturbations / S. Chandrasekhar
-- Black hole astrophysics / R.D. Blandford and K.S. Thorne
-- The big bang cosmology--enigmas and nostrums / R.H. Dicke and P.J.E. Peebles
-- Cosmology and the early universe / Ya B. Zelʹdovich
-- Anisotropic and inhomogeneous relativistic cosmologies / M.A.H. MacCallum
-- Singularities and time-assymetry / R. Penrose
-- Quantum field theory in curved spacetime / G.W. Gibbons
-- Quantum gravity : the new synthesis / B.S. DeWitt
-- The path-integral approach to quantum gravity / S.W. Hawking
-- Ultraviolet divergences in quantum theories of gravitation / S. Weinberg.

Genres: Physics

944 pages, Hardcover

First published September 27, 1979