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Book Information
Author(s):
R. K. Sachs and H. Wu
Title:
General relativity for mathematicians
Additional book information:
Graduate Texts in Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, New York, Heidelberg, Berlin, 1977, xii + 291 pp., $19.83
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- S. W. Hawking and G. F. R. Ellis, The large scale structure of spacetime, Cambridge Univ. Press, London and New York, 1973. MR 424186
- 4.
- S. W. Hawking and R. Penrose, The singularities of gravitational collapse and cosmology, Proc. Roy. Soc. Ser. A, London 314 (1970), 529. MR 264959
- 5.
- C. W. Misner, K. S. Thome and J. A. Wheeler, Gravitation, Freeman, San Francisco, Calif., 1973. MR 418833
- 6.
- R. Penrose, Techniques of differential topology in relativity, SIAM Publications, Philadelphia, 1972. MR 469146
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- S. Weinberg, Gravitation and cosmology, Wiley, New York, 1972.
- 8.
- T. T. Wu and C. N. Yang, Concept of nonintegrable phase factors and global formulation of gauge fields, Phys. Rev. D 12 (1975), 3845. MR 426712
Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
John A.
Thorpe
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
84
(1978),
1344-1346.
DOI:
10.1090/S0002-9904-1978-14570-4
PII:
S 0002-9904(1978)14570-4
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