Introduction to general relativity and the cosmological constant problem
New York
Nova Science Publishers
2007
xiv, 213 p
Includes bibliographical references )p. ]171[-207( and index
Marcelo Samuel Berman
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Mathematical preliminaries. Tensors in amorphous spaces ; Tensors in Riemann spaces -- Introduction to general relativity. Basic theory ; Schwarzschild's metric and classical experimental tests ; Complements of tensor calculus and general relativity -- Introduction to relativistic cosmology. Digression into philosophical and mathematical matters ; Robertson-Walker's metric -- Energy of the vacuum and the ]lambda[-universe. The ]lambda[ problem and its solution ; Energy of the universe and the ]lambda[-problem ; Miscellaneous cosmological models -- Concluding remarks