General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics
In 1979 I gave graduate courses at the University of Zurich and lectured in the 'Troisieme Cycle de la Suisse Romande' (a consortium offour uni versities in the french-speaking part of Switzerland), and these lectures were the basis of the 'Springer Lect
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J. L. Birman R. P. Geroch E. H. Lieb T. Regge W. Thirring Series Editors
Norbert Straumann
General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics
With 81 Figures
Spri nger-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York London Paris Tokyo Hong Kong Barcelona Budapest
Professor Dr. Norbert Straumann Institut flir Theoretische Physik, Universitiit Zurich CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland
Editors Wolf BeiglbOck
Elliott H. Lieb
Institut fijr Angewandte Mathematik Universitiit Heidelberg 1m Neuenheimer Feld 294 D-6900 Heidelberg 1 Fed. Rep. of Germany
Department of Physics Joseph Henry Laboratories Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08540, USA
Joseph L. Binnan
Tullio Regge
Department of Physics, The City College of the City University of New York New York, NY 10031, USA
Istituto di Fisca Teorica UniversitadiTorino, C. soM. d'Azeglio,46 1-10125 Torino, Italy
Robert P. Geroch Enrico Fermi Institute University of Chicago 5640 Ellis Ave. Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Walter Thirring Institut fijrTheoretische Physik der Universitat Wien, Boltzmanngasse 5 A-I090Wien,Austria
Title a/the German edition: Allgemeine Relativitatstheorie und relativistische Astrophysik; 2. Auflage (Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. 150) © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1981 and 1988
Second Printing 1991 ISBN-13: 978-3-540-53743-4 001: 10.1007/978-3-642-84439-3
e-ISBN-13: 978-3-642-84439-3
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data. Straumann, Norbert, 1936-. General relativity and relativistic astrophysics. (Texts and monographs in physics) Revised translation of: Allgemeine Relativitiitstheorie und relativistische Astrophysik. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. General relativity (Physics) 2. Astrophysics. I. Title. II. Series. QC173.6.S7713 1984 530.1'1 84-5374 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically those of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, broadcasting, reproduction by photocopying machine or similar means, and storage in data banks. Under § 54 of the German Copyright Law, where copies are made for other than private use, a fee is payable to "Verwertungsgesellschaft Wort", Munich. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1984 .
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To my wife and sons, Maria, Dominik, Felix, and Tobias
Preface
In 1979 I gave graduate courses at the University of Zurich and lectured in the 'Troisieme Cycle de la Suisse Romande' (a consortium offour universities in the french-speaking part of Switzerland), and these lectures were the basis of the 'Springer Lecture Notes in Physics', Volume 150, published in 1981. This text appeared in German, because there have been few modern expositions of the gener
