CHAPTER 9: LIMITS OF SPACETIMES

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• About Ricci Coefficients

• Levi-Civita's Constant Gravitational Field

• Minkowski Spacetime as an Infinite Mass Limit of Schwarzschild Spacetime

• The Constant Electric or Magnetic Field as a Limit of the Spherically Symmetric Field of a Point Charge

• The Reissner-Nordstrom Limit Procedure Near m = e

• The Levi-Civita Limit

• Isotropic Reissner-Nordstrom Solution

• Reissner-Nordstrom Force Field - Rest Case

• Reissner-Nordstrom Force Field - General Case

• Schwarzschild's Field in Isotropic Coordinates

• Schwarzschild Spatial Acceleration

• Schwarzschild Energy Loss

• The de Sitter Isotropic Form

• De Sitter Analysis

• Geodesic Equation