Revised translation of: Allgemeine Relativity tstheorie und relativistische Astrophysik
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Norbert Straumann
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2nd ed
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1. Introduction -- 2. Physics in external gravitational fields -- 3. Einstein's field equations -- 4. The Schwarzschild solution and classical tests of general relativity -- 5. Weak gravitational fields -- 6. The post-Newtonian approximation -- 7. White dwarfs and neutron stars -- 8. Black holes -- 9. The positive mass theorem -- 01. Essential of Friedmann-Lemaعitre models -- 11. Differentiable manifolds -- 21. Tangent vectors, vector and tensor fields -- 31. The lie derivative -- 41. Differential forms -- 51. Affine connections -- 61. Some details and supplements -- Appendix A. Fundamental equations for hypersurfaces -- Appendix B. Ricci curvature of warped products -- Appendix C. Frobenius integrability theorm -- Appendix D. Collection of important formulas
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Allgemeine relativity tstheorie und relativistische astrophysik. English