Titlebook: General Relativity; Norbert Straumann Textbook 2013Latest edition Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 Einstein’s Field Equation

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Differentiable Manifoldsoncepts connected with the notion of a differentiable manifold. We give two definitions of a differentiable manifold. The standard one starts with a topological space. One can alternatively begin with a set and introduce the topology with a given atlas. This approach is not only practical to constru

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Tangent Vectors, Vector and Tensor Fieldsfinitions. On the basis this notion vector fields are introduced, together with their Lie algebra structure. In the subsection on tensor fields, the reader is assumed to be familiar with some basic material of multilinear algebra. Important examples of tensor fields are (pseudo-) Riemannian metrics

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Differential Forms repeating some algebraic preliminaries on exterior algebras. Then exterior differential forms and the associated exterior algebra are introduced. On this we study general properties of derivations and antiderivations. The most important one is Cartan’s exterior derivative. Poincaré’s Lemma is also

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Some Details and Supplementslong maps and their induced covariant derivatives, because this is used at various places in the book. For a convenient formulation we introduce the tangent bundle of a manifold, the prototype of a vector bundle. Applications to variations of curves will illustrate the usefulness of the concepts.

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Interpreting the Chemical Residues Storyly to the kinematical framework of GR and determines—suitable interpreted—the coupling of physical systems to external gravitational fields. This is discussed in detail in the present chapter. Although Einstein’s Equivalence Principle (EEP) is somewhat vague, since it is not entirely clear what is m

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https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-30571-8r, we shall first give a simple physical motivation for the field equation and will then show that it is determined by only a few natural requirements (Lovelock theorem), with two coupling constants. One is just Newtons gravitational constant, and the other is the much discussed cosmological constan