General Relativity
暫譯: 廣義相對論

Straumann, Norbert

  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2014-11-09
  • 售價: $2,940
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$2,793
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 736
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 9400799543
  • ISBN-13: 9789400799547
  • 相關分類: 物理學 Physics
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This book provides a completely revised and expanded version of the previous classic edition 'General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics'. In Part I the foundations of general relativity are thoroughly developed, while Part II is devoted to tests of general relativity and many of its applications. Binary pulsars - our best laboratories for general relativity - are studied in considerable detail. An introduction to gravitational lensing theory is included as well, so as to make the current literature on the subject accessible to readers. Considerable attention is devoted to the study of compact objects, especially to black holes. This includes a detailed derivation of the Kerr solution, Israel's proof of his uniqueness theorem, and a derivation of the basic laws of black hole physics. Part II ends with Witten's proof of the positive energy theorem, which is presented in detail, together with the required tools on spin structures and spinor analysis. In Part III, all of the differential geometric tools required are developed in detail. A great deal of effort went into refining and improving the text for the new edition. New material has been added, including a chapter on cosmology. The book addresses undergraduate and graduate students in physics, astrophysics and mathematics. It utilizes a very well structured approach, which should help it continue to be a standard work for a modern treatment of gravitational physics. The clear presentation of differential geometry also makes it useful for work on string theory and other fields of physics, classical as well as quantum.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

這本書提供了前一版經典著作《廣義相對論與相對論天體物理學》的全面修訂和擴展版本。在第一部分中,廣義相對論的基礎被徹底發展,而第二部分則專注於廣義相對論的測試及其許多應用。雙星脈衝星——我們研究廣義相對論的最佳實驗室——被詳細研究。此外,書中還包含了引力透鏡理論的介紹,以便使讀者能夠接觸到當前該主題的文獻。相當多的注意力被放在緊湊天體的研究上,特別是黑洞。這包括對Kerr解的詳細推導、以色列對其唯一性定理的證明,以及黑洞物理基本法則的推導。第二部分以Witten的正能量定理證明作結,該證明詳細呈現,並附上所需的自旋結構和自旋子分析工具。在第三部分中,所有所需的微分幾何工具都被詳細發展。為了新版本的文本,投入了大量的精力進行精煉和改進。新增的材料包括一章關於宇宙學的內容。這本書針對物理學、天體物理學和數學的本科生和研究生。它採用非常良好結構化的方法,應該能夠幫助其繼續成為現代引力物理學的標準著作。微分幾何的清晰呈現也使其對於弦理論及其他物理領域(無論是經典還是量子)都具有實用性。

作者簡介

Norbert Straumann (born 6 August 1936 in Niedererlinsbach) is a Swiss physicist. He attended public schools and studied physics and mathematics at the ETH in Zurich, where his instructors included Heinz Hopf, Res Jost, Wolfgang Pauli, Paul Scherrer, Eduard Stiefel, Walter Heitler, Rolf Nevanlinna and Bartel Leendert van der Waerden.

In his diploma thesis in 1959, Professor Straumann dealt with the characterization of generalized free fields in the axiomatic field theory, which he wrote under the direction of Res Jost. In 1961 he completed his doctorate under Walter Heitler with a thesis on hyperon and meson mass differences in a non-local field theory. In subsequent years, he was a research associate of Walter Heitler.

From 1964 to 1965 he was a Fellow at CERN in Geneva, serving as an assistant professor at the University of Zurich. From 1967 to 1968 he taught as an associate professor at Duke University in North Carolina. At that time his focus was on the mass differences for bosons and the current algebra, a forerunner of the modern theory of strong interactions.

In 1969 he began forming a theory group for the former Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research (now the Paul Scherrer Institute). In the seventies he changed his focus, growing more interested in the theory of gravitation. In this context, he placed great emphasis on the historical aspects of gravity.

In 1969, Straumann became a professor at the University of Zurich, and the years and decades that followed saw him increasingly involved in major associations. From 1980-1987 he was a member of the Scientific Council at the Swiss National Science Foundation; from 1985-1986 he was a visiting professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Bern. In 1988 he was a visiting professor in Amsterdam. From 1997-2000 he worked on an advisory board of the Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam.

In 2001 he retired, and has since written a number of further works on the theory of gravitation, primarily addressing the classic fields of theoretical physics (mechanics, electrodynamics, thermodynamics and kinetic theory, statistical mechanics, special relativity, general relativity and astrophysics, cosmology and black holes). His lecture notes, which have partly been published in book form, influenced a whole generation of students and researchers at the University of Zurich.

In recognition of his achievements, in 2005 Norbert Straumann was awarded the title of Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa from the University of Bern.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

諾伯特·斯特勞曼(Norbert Straumann,1936年8月6日出生於尼德艾林斯巴赫)是一位瑞士物理學家。他就讀於公立學校,並在蘇黎世的瑞士聯邦理工學院(ETH)學習物理和數學,期間的指導教授包括海因茨·霍夫(Heinz Hopf)、瑞斯·約斯特(Res Jost)、沃爾夫岡·泡利(Wolfgang Pauli)、保羅·謝爾(Paul Scherrer)、愛德華·斯蒂費爾(Eduard Stiefel)、瓦爾特·海特勒(Walter Heitler)、羅夫·內瓦林納(Rolf Nevanlinna)和巴特爾·倫德特·范德瓦爾登(Bartel Leendert van der Waerden)。

在1959年的畢業論文中,斯特勞曼教授探討了公理場論中廣義自由場的特徵,該論文是在瑞斯·約斯特的指導下撰寫的。1961年,他在瓦爾特·海特勒的指導下完成了博士學位,論文主題為非局部場論中的超子和介子質量差異。在隨後的幾年中,他擔任瓦爾特·海特勒的研究助理。

從1964年到1965年,他在日內瓦的歐洲核子研究組織(CERN)擔任研究員,同時在蘇黎世大學擔任助理教授。從1967年到1968年,他在北卡羅來納州的杜克大學擔任副教授。當時他的研究重點是玻色子的質量差異和電流代數,這是現代強相互作用理論的前身。

1969年,他開始為前瑞士核研究所(現為保羅·謝爾研究所)組建一個理論小組。在1970年代,他改變了研究重點,對引力理論產生了更大的興趣。在這個背景下,他非常重視引力的歷史方面。

1969年,斯特勞曼成為蘇黎世大學的教授,隨後的歲月和幾十年中,他越來越多地參與主要的學術協會。1980年至1987年,他是瑞士國家科學基金會的科學委員會成員;1985年至1986年,他在伯恩大學的理論物理研究所擔任訪問教授。1988年,他在阿姆斯特丹擔任訪問教授。1997年至2000年,他在波茨坦的阿爾伯特·愛因斯坦研究所的顧問委員會工作。

2001年,他退休,並自此撰寫了多部關於引力理論的著作,主要涉及理論物理的經典領域(力學、電動力學、熱力學和動力學理論、統計力學、特殊相對論、一般相對論、天體物理學、宇宙學和黑洞)。他的講義部分已以書籍形式出版,影響了整整一代蘇黎世大學的學生和研究人員。

為了表彰他的成就,諾伯特·斯特勞曼於2005年獲得伯恩大學的榮譽博士學位(Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa)。