General Relativity and Gravitational Waves: Essentials of Theory and Practice
Sanjeev / Mitra Dhurandhar
Résumé
This book serves as a textbook for senior undergraduate students who are learning the subject of general relativity and gravitational waves for the first time. Both authors have been teaching the course in various forms for a few decades and have designed the book as a one stop book at basic level including derivations and exercises.
A spectacular prediction of general relativity is gravitational waves. Gravitational waves were first detected by the LIGO detectors in 2015, hundred years after their prediction. Both authors are part of the LIGO Science Collaboration and were authors on the discovery paper. Therefore, a strong motivation for this book is to provide the essential concepts of general relativity theory and gravitational waves with their modern applications to students and to researchers who are new to the multi-disciplinary field of gravitational wave astronomy.
One of the advanced topics covered in this book is the fundamentals of gravitational wave data analysis, filling a gap in textbooks on general relativity. The topic blends smoothly with other chapters in the book not only because of the common area of research, but it uses similar differential geometric and algebraic tools that are used in general relativity.Preface.- 1 Special Relativity.- 2 Equivalence Principle.- 3 Tensor algebra in curvilinear coordinates.- 4 The Geometry of Curved Spaces and Tensor Calculus.- 5 Einstein's Equations.- 6 Schwarzschild Solution and Black Holes.- 7 Tests of GR.- 8 Gravitational Waves.- 9 GW Data Analysis.- Bibliography.
Prof. Sanjit Mitra has been involved in gravitational wave research for twenty years. He has taught the general relativity course for M.Sc. and Ph.D. students for nearly ten years and given lectures on gravitational waves in several works. He has authored thirty research papers in reputed journals and is an author in more than two hundred papers by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and also the Planck Collaboration for his research on cosmic microwave background.
The author is a recipient of several prestigious awards which include the SwarnaJayanti Fellowship (2016) by the Department of Science & Technology (DST), India, Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2016) and the Gruber Cosmology Prize (2016), Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research (2017), for the detection of gravitational waves as part of the as part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC), Giuseppe and Vanna Cocconi Prize (2019) awarded to the WMAP & Planck Collaborations by the European Physical Society and the Gruber Cosmology Prize (2018) for mapping the CMB anisotropies as part of the Planck Team.
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| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Springer |
| Auteur(s) | Sanjeev / Mitra Dhurandhar |
| Parution | 16/02/2022 |
| Nb. de pages | 207 |
| EAN13 | 9783030923341 |
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