Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 317 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511721694
Content:
This volume provides a comprehensive survey of our understanding of the universe based on the exact solutions of the theory of relativity. More precisely, it describes those models that fit with astronomical observations of galaxy clusters, cosmic voids and other key features of our universe. This authoritative account achieves two important goals. First, it collects together all independently derived cosmological solutions since the birth of relativity in 1915 to 1997, and clearly shows how they are interrelated. Secondly, it presents a coherent overview of the physical properties of these inhomogeneous models. It demonstrates, for instance, that the formation of voids and the interaction of the cosmic microwave background radiation with matter in the universe can be explained by exact solutions of the Einstein equations, without the need for approximations. This book will be of particular interest to graduates and researchers in gravity, relativity and theoretical cosmology as well as historians of science
Content:
1. Preliminaries -- 2. The Szekeres-Szafron family of solutions -- 3. Physics and cosmology in an inhomogeneous Universe -- 4. The Stephani-Barnes family of solutions -- 5. Solution with null radiation -- 6. Solutions with a "stiff fluid"/scalar field source -- 7. Other solutions -- 8. Averaging out inhomogeneities of geometry and matter in cosmological models -- 9. Comments -- App. A. Dictionary of abbreviations used in the text and in the diagrams -- App. B. Why should one consider inhomogeneous models of the Universe? -- App. C. Memorable statements about the cosmological principle -- App. D. How was this review compiled? -- App. E. Historical milestones
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521481809
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521030175
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521481809
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511721694
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