One hundred years of general relativity : from genesis and empirical foundations to gravitational waves, cosmology and quantum gravity / editor, Wei-Tou Ni, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu.
Volume 1: A genesis of special relativity / Valerie Messager and Christophe Letellier -- Genesis of general relativity: a concise exposition / W.-T. Ni -- Schwarzschild and Kerr solutions of Einstein's field equation: an introduction -- Christian Heinicke and Friederich W. Hehl -- Gravitational energy for GR and Poincaré gauge theories: a covariant Hamiltonian approach / Jiang-Mei Chen, James Nester and Roh-Suan Tung -- Equivalence principles, spacetime structure and the cosmic connection / W.-T. Ni -- Cosmic polarization rotation: an astrophysical test of fundamental physics / Sperello di Serego Alighieri -- Clock comparison based on laser ranging technologies / Étienne Samain -- Solar-system tests of relativistic gravity / W.-T. Ni -- Pulsars and gravity / R.N. Manchester -- GWs: classification, sources, methods of detection and sensitivities / K. Kuroda, W.-T. Ni and W.-P. Pan -- Introduction to ground based gravitational wave detectors / K. Kuroda -- GW detection in space / W.-T. Ni. Volume 2: General relativity and cosmology / M. Bucher and W.-T. Ni -- Cosmic structure / Marc Davis -- Physics of the cosmic microwave background anisotropy / M. Bucher -- SNe Ia as a cosmological probe / Xiangcun Meng, Yan Gao and Zhanwen Han -- Gravitational lensing in cosmology / Toshifumi Futamase -- Inflationary cosmology: first 30+ years / K. Sato and J. Yokoyama -- Inflation, string theory and cosmic strings / David Chernoff and Henry Tye -- Quantum gravity: a brief history of ideas and some outlooks / S. Carlip, D.-W. Chiou, W.-T. Ni, R. Woodard -- Perturbative quantum gravity comes of age / R. Woodard -- Black hole thermodynamics / S. Carlip -- Loop quantum gravity / Dah-Wei Chiou.
Summary:
"The aim of this two-volume title is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of development of general relativity and its scientific influences. This unique title provides a broad introduction and review to the fascinating and profound subject of general relativity, its historical development, its important theoretical consequences, gravitational wave detection and applications to astrophysics and cosmology. The series focuses on five aspects of the theory: Genesis, Solutions and Energy Empirical Foundations, Gravitational Waves, Cosmology, Quantum Gravity. The first three topics are covered in Volume 1 and the remaining two are covered in Volume 2. While this is a two-volume title, it is designed so that each volume can be a stand-alone reference volume for the related topic"-- Provided by publisher.
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