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Global Lorentzian geometry

Global Lorentzian geometry
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Dewey Class 516.37
Title Global Lorentzian geometry (M) / John K. Beem ; Paul E. Ehrlich ; Kevin L. Easley
Author Beem, John K.
Added Personal Name Ehrlich, Paul E. , 1948-
Easley, Kevin L , 1956-
Edition statement Second Edition
Publication Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press , 1996
Physical Details xiv, 635 pages : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Pure and applied mathematics ; 202
ISBN 9780824793241
Contents note Contents: 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.
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