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 -