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The aim of this two-volume title is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of development of general relativity and its scientific influences. This unique title provides a broad introduction and review to the fascinating and profound subject of general relativity, its historical development, its important theoretical consequences, gravitational wave detection and applications to astrophysics and cosmology. The series focuses on five aspects of the theory:
- Genesis, Solutions and Energy
- Empirical Foundations
- Gravitational Waves
- Cosmology
- Quantum Gravity
The first three topics are covered in Volume 1 and the remaining two are covered in Volume 2. While this is a two-volume title, it is designed so that each volume can be a standalone reference volume for the related topic.
Contents:- Volume 1:
- Genesis, Solutions and Energy:
- A Genesis of Special Relativity (Valérie Messager and Christophe Letellier)
- Genesis of General Relativity — A Concise Exposition (Wei-Tou Ni)
- Schwarzschild and Kerr Solutions of Einstein's Field Equation: An Introduction (Christian Heinicke and Friederich W Hehl)
- Gravitational Energy for GR and Poincaré Gauge Theories: A Covariant Hamiltonian Approach (Chiang-Mei Chen, James Nester and Roh-Suan Tung)
- Empirical Foundations:
- Equivalence Principles, Spacetime Structure and the Cosmic Connection (Wei-Tou Ni)
- Cosmic Polarization Rotation: An Astrophysical Test of Fundamental Physics (Sperello di Serego Alighieri)
- Clock Comparison Based on Laser Ranging Technologies (Étienne Samain)
- Solar-System Tests of Relativistic Gravity (Wei-Tou Ni)
- Pulsars and Gravity (R N Manchester)
- Gravitational Waves:
- Gravitational Waves: Classification, Methods of Detection, Sensitivities, and Sources (Kazuaki Kuroda, Wei-Tou Ni and Wei-Ping Pan)
- Ground-Based Gravitational-Wave Detectors (Kazuaki Kuroda)
- Gravitational Wave Detection in Space (Wei-Tou Ni)
- Genesis, Solutions and Energy:
- Volume 2:
- Cosmology:
- General Relativity and Cosmology (Martin Bucher and Wei-Tou Ni)
- Cosmic Structure (Marc Davis)
- Physics of the Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy (Martin Bucher)
- SNe Ia as a Cosmological Probe (Xiangcun Meng, Yan Gao and Zhanwen Han)
- Gravitational Lensing in Cosmology (Toshifumi Futamase)
- Inflationary Cosmology: First 30+ Years (Katsuhiko Sato and Jun'ichi Yokoyama)
- Inflation, String Theory and Cosmic Strings (David Chernoff and S-H Henry Tye)
- Quantum Gravity:
- Quantum Gravity: A Brief History of Ideas and Some Outlooks (Steven Carlip, Dah-Wei Chiou, Wei-Tou Ni and Richard Woodard)
- Black Hole Thermodynamics (S Carlip)
- Loop Quantum Gravity (Dah-Wei Chiou)
- Cosmology:
