Introduction to General Relativity and the Cosmological Constant Problem

By: Marcelo Samuel Berman

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Hardcover | 1 December 2005

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This book is an introductory text in General Relativity, while also focusing some solutions to the cosmological constant problem, which consists in an amazing 100 orders of magnitude discrepancy between the value of this constant in the present Universe, and its estimated value in the very early epoch. The author suggests that the constant is in fact, a time-varying function of the age of the Universe. The book offers a wealth of cosmological models, treats up to date findings, like the verification of the Lense-Thirring effect in the year 2004, and the recently published research by Cooperstock and Tieu (2005) suggesting that "dark" matter is not a necessary concept in order to explain the rotational velocities of stars around galaxies' nuclei. This is a mathematical cosmology textbook that may lead undergraduates, and graduate students to one of the frontiers of research, while keeping the prerequisites to a minimum, because most of the theory in the book requires only prior knowledge of Calculus and a University Physics course.

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Mathematical preliminaries	p. 1
Tensors in amorphous spaces	p. 3
Tensors in Riemann spaces	p. 11
Introduction to general relativity	p. 19
Basic theory	p. 21
Schwarzschild's metric and classical experimental tests	p. 35
Complements of tensor calculus and general relativity (optional study)	p. 51
Introduction to relativistic cosmology	p. 61
Digression into philosophical and mathematical matters (optional study)	p. 63
Robertson-Walker's metric	p. 77
Energy of the vacuum and the [Lambda]-universe	p. 97
The [Lambda] problem and its solution	p. 99
Energy of the universe and the [Lambda]-problem	p. 109
Miscellaneous cosmological models	p. 123
Concluding remarks	p. 149
Concluding remarks	p. 151
Gravitomagnetism	p. 155
Absence of "dark" matter in galaxies	p. 167
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