Dynamical and Hamiltonian Formulation of General Relativity
Einstein’s theory of General Relativity describes spacetime as a solution of a set of non-linear partial differential equations. These equations are initially not in the form of evolution equations and it is hence not clear how to formulate and solve init
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Handbook Spacetime
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Springer Handbook of Spacetime
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Handbook of Spacetime
Abhay Ashtekar, Vesselin Petkov (Eds.) With 190 Figures and 9 Tables
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Editors Abhay Ashtekar Pennsylvania State University Department of Physics University Park PA 16802, USA Vesselin Petkov Institute for Foundational Studies Hermann Minkowski Montreal, Quebec, Canada
ISBN: 978-3-642-41991-1 e-ISBN: 978-3-642-41992-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-41992-8 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number:
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Preface
In his Principia Mathematica, Isaac Newton formalized the notions of space and time, thereby laying the foundations of a new, revolutionary science. The sweeping success of celestial mechanics firmly established the power of Newton’s spacetime paradigm. Soon it became firmly rooted in scientific thought and it gradually came to b
