Theory of Gravitational Interactions

• Main Author: Gasperini, Maurizio. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.; Cosmology.; Mathematical Physics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2691-9

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 discu...

Table of Contents:

• 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.