xiv, 513 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 28 cm
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1. Special relativity and flat spacetime --; 2. Manifolds --; 3. Curvature --; 4. Gravitation --; 5. The Schwarzschild solution --; 6. More general black holes --; 7. Perturbation theory and gravitational radiation --; 8. Cosmology --; 9. Quantum field theory in curved spacetime --; 10. Appendices : A. Maps between manifolds --; B. Diffeomorphisms and lie derivatives --; C. Submanifolds --; D. Hypersurfaces --; E. Stokes's theorem --; F. Geodesic Congruences --; G. Conformal transformations --; H. Conformal diagrams --; I. The Parallel propagator --; J. Noncoordinate bases.