Description
Book SynopsisThis invaluable book presents gravitation and gauge fields as interrelated topics with a common physical and mathematical foundation, such as gauge theory of gravitation and other fields, giving emphasis to the physicist's point of view.About half of the material is devoted to Einstein's general relativity theory, and the rest to gauge fields that naturally blend well with gravitation, including spinor formulation, classification of SU(2) gauge fields and null-tetrad formulation of the Yang-Mills field in the presence of gravitation.The text includes a useful introduction to the physical foundation of the theory of gravitation. It also provides the mathematical theory of the geometry of curved space-times needed to describe Einstein's general relativity theory.
Table of ContentsThe gravitational field; the geometry of curved space-time; the Einstein field equations; gravitational fields of elementary mass systems; properties of the gravitational field; equations of motion in general relativity; axisymmetric solutions of the Einstein field equations; spinor formulation of gravitation and gauge fields; classification of the gravitational and gauge fields; gauge theory of gravitation and other fields; extended bodies in general relativity.
