The Wave Equation on a Curved Space-Time - Couverture souple

Friedlander, F

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521136369 ISBN 13 : 9780521136365

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

This book gives a rigourous discussion of the local effects of curvature on the behaviour of waves.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published in 1975. In Einstein's General Theory of Relativity the effects of gravitation are represented by the curvature of space-time. Physical processes occurring in the presence of gravitation must then be treated mathematically in terms of their behaviour in a curved space-time. One of the most basic of these processes is wave propagation, and this book gives a rigourous discussion of the local effects of curvature on the behaviour of waves. In the course of this discussion many techniques are developed which are also needed for a study of more general problems, in which the gravitational field itself plays a dynamical role. Although much of the book deals with four-dimensional space-time, the n-dimensional case is also treated, more briefly. The subject-matter is also of interest in other branches of mathematical physics and, as a fresh account of the classical work of Hadamard and M. Riesz, in the theory of partial differential equations.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521136369
• ISBN 13: 9780521136365
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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