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Theory of Gravitational Interactions (eBook)

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2013 | 2013
XVI, 322 Seiten
Springer Italia (Verlag)
978-88-470-2691-9 (ISBN)

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Theory of Gravitational Interactions - Maurizio Gasperini
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This up-to-date, self-contained review of the theory of gravitational interactions presents a traditional introduction, then discuss analogies and differences between a geometric theory of gravity and the gauge theories of the other fundamental interactions.
This reference textbook is an up-to-date and self-contained introduction to the theory of gravitational interactions. The first part of the book follows the traditional presentation of general relativity as a geometric theory of the macroscopic gravitational field. A second, advanced part then discusses the deep analogies (and differences) between a geometric theory of gravity and the gauge theories of the other fundamental interactions. This fills a gap which is present in the context of the traditional approach to general relativity, and which usually makes students puzzled about the role of gravity. The necessary notions of differential geometry are reduced to the minimum, leaving more room for those aspects of gravitational physics of current phenomenological and theoretical interest, such as the properties of gravitational waves, the gravitational interactions of spinors, and the supersymmetric generalization of the Einstein equations. Theory of Gravitational Interactions will be of particular value to undergraduate students pursuing a theoretical or astroparticle curriculum. It can also be used by those teaching related subjects, by PhD students and young researchers working in different scientific sectors but wishing to enlarge their spectrum of interests, and, in general, by all scholars interested in the modern aspects and problems of gravitational interaction.

Maurizio Gasperini has already published 6 books with us. He is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Physics Department of the University of Bari, Italy. He is the author of more than 200 publications on gravitational theory, high-energy physics, and cosmology, and has twice won an "Award for Essays on Gravitation" from the Gravity Research Foundation (1996 and 1998). His former posts include a permanent position in the Department of Theoretical Physics at the University of Turin, and three appointments as Scientific Associate at CERN, Theory Division (1993, 1996 and 2005). Here, in collaboration with Gabriele Veneziano, he formulated and developed an early-cosmology scenario based on the symmetries of string theory.

Elementary notions of relativistic field theory.- Towards a relativistic theory of gravity.- Tensor calculus in a Riemannian manifold.- Maxwell equations and Riemann geometry.- Test bodies and signals in a Riemann spacetime.- Geodesic deviation and curvature tensor.- The Einstein equations for the gravitational field.- The weak field approximation.- Gravitational waves.- The Schwarzschild solution.- The Kasner solution.- Vierbeins and Lorentz connection.- The Dirac equation in a gravitational field.- Supersimmetry and supergravity.- Appendix A. The language of differential forms.- Appendix B. Higher-dimensional gravity.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 26.1.2013
Reihe/Serie Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
Verlagsort Milano
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Relativitätstheorie
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Theoretische Physik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Thermodynamik
Schlagworte fundamental interactions • General relativity • gravitational theory • Theory of Gravitational Interactions
ISBN-10 88-470-2691-1 / 8847026911
ISBN-13 978-88-470-2691-9 / 9788847026919
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