General relativity

Author: Liu Liao
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: "General Relativity" can be used as a teaching textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate students in science and engineering disciplines in Chinese universities, and can also be referenced by relevant scientific research personnel and teachers. Professor Liu Liao's book "General Relativity," written in 1987, has played a positive role in popularizing and advancing general relativity in China. Considering the new developments in this field in recent years, the author has updated and supplemented the content of this book. The new edition of this book includes the physical foundations of general relativity, Riemann geometry and tensor analysis, Einstein's field equations, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian forms, quasi-local energy expressions for gravitational systems, gravitational waves, compact stars, black hole physics, and inflationary cosmology, etc. This book is a teaching textbook for graduate students and can also be referenced by relevant scientific research personnel and teachers. As an introductory reading on general relativity, this book is self-contained and comprehensive, and readers can also enter the field of research by self-studying this book.