TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gasperini,Maurizio
TI  - Theory of gravitational interactions
T2  - Undergraduate lecture notes in physics
SN  - 9788847026902 (pbk. : alk. paper)
U1  - 531.14 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York :   
PB  - Springer,        
KW  - Gravitation
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Elementary Notions of Relativistic Field Theory --
2. Towards a Relativistic Theory of Gravity --
3. Tensor Calculus in a Riemann Manifold --
4. Maxwell Equations and Riemann Geometry --
5. Test Bodies and Signals in a Riemann Space-Time --
6. Geodesic Deviation and Curvature Tensor --
7. The Einstein Equations for the Gravitational Field --
8. The Weak-Field Approximation --
9. Gravitational Waves --
10. The Schwarzschild Solution --
11. The Kasner Solution --
12. Vierbeins and Lorentz Connection --
13. The Dirac Equation in a Gravitational Field --
14. Supersymmetry and Supergravity--
Appendices--
References--
Index
N2  - This up-to-date, self-contained review of the theory of gravitational interactions presents a traditional introduction, then discuss analogies and differences between a geometric theory of gravity and the gauge theories of the other fundamental interactions
ER  -