by Hans Stephani (Author), Dietrich Kramer (Author), Malcolm MacCallum (Author)
A completely revised and updated edition of this classic text, covering important new methods and many recently discovered solutions. This edition contains new chapters on generation methods and their application, classification of metrics by invariants, and treatments of homothetic motions and methods from dynamical systems theory. It also includes colliding waves, inhomogeneous cosmological solutions, and spacetimes containing special subspaces.
Number of Pages: 732
Dimensions: 1.7 x 9.6 x 6.9 IN
Publication Date: September 24, 2009