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Global Lorentzian geometry
Tag	Description
020	$a9780824793241
082	$a516.37
099	$a514.7 BEE 2nd ed.
100	$aBeem, John K.
245	$aGlobal Lorentzian geometry$hM$cJohn K. Beem ; Paul E. Ehrlich ; Kevin L. Easley
250	$aSecond Edition
260	$aBoca Raton, FL$bCRC Press$c1996
300	$axiv, 635 pages$bill.$c24 cm.
440	$aPure and applied mathematics$v202
505	$aContents: 1. Introduction: Riemannian Themes in Lorentzian Geometry -- 2. Connections and Curvature -- 3. Lorentzian Manifolds and Causality -- 4. Lorentzian Distance -- 5. Examples of Space-times -- 6. Completeness and Extendibility -- 7. Stability of Completeness and Incompleteness -- 8. Maximal Geodesics and Causally Disconnected Space-times -- 9. The Lorentzian Cut Locus -- 10. Morse Index Theory on Lorentzian Manifolds -- 11. Some Results in Global Lorentzian Geometry -- 12. Singularities -- 13. Gravitational Plane Space-times -- 14. The Splitting Problem in Global Lorentzian Geometry -- App. A. Jacobi Fields and Toponogov's Theorem for Lorentzian Manifolds / Steven G. Harris -- App. B. From the Jacobi, to a Riccati, to the Raychaudhuri Equation: Jacobi Tensor Fields and the Exponential Map Revisited.
700	$aEhrlich, Paul E.$d1948-
700	$aEasley, Kevin L$d1956-