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Book Information:
Authors:
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.
B. S. DeWitt (ed.), Black holes/Les astres occlus, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, New York-London-Paris, 1973. Based on the lectures given at the 23rd session of the Cours de l’École d’Été de Physique Théorique, Les Houches, August 1972. MR 0408678
2. S. W. Hawking, The quantum mechanics of black holes, Scientific American 236 (1977), 34.
S. W. Hawking and G. F. R. Ellis, The large scale structure of space-time, Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics, No. 1, Cambridge University Press, London-New York, 1973. MR 0424186
S. W. Hawking and R. Penrose, The singularities of gravitational collapse and cosmology, Proc. Roy. Soc. London Ser. A 314 (1970), 529–548. MR 264959, DOI 10.1098/rspa.1970.0021
Charles W. Misner, Kip S. Thorne, and John Archibald Wheeler, Gravitation, W. H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco, Calif., 1973. MR 0418833
Roger Penrose, Techniques of differential topology in relativity, Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences Regional Conference Series in Applied Mathematics, No. 7, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Philadelphia, Pa., 1972. MR 0469146
7. S. Weinberg, Gravitation and cosmology, Wiley, New York, 1972.
Tai Tsun Wu and Chen Ning Yang, Concept of nonintegrable phase factors and global formulation of gauge fields, Phys. Rev. D (3) 12 (1975), no. 12, 3845–3857. MR 426712, DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.12.3845
- 1.
- S. W. Hawking, The event horizon, Black holes, DeWitt and DeWitt (eds.), Gordon and Breach, New York, 1973. MR 0408678
- 2.
- S. W. Hawking, The quantum mechanics of black holes, Scientific American 236 (1977), 34.
- 3.
- 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
- 7.
- 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
Review Information:
Reviewer:
John A. Thorpe
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
84 (1978), 1344-1346
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1978-14570-4