Space-Time Structure

Erwin Schrödinger (Author)

9780521315203, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 17 October 1985

128 pages
21.6 x 13.5 x 0.8 cm, 0.15 kg

In response to repeated requests this classic book on space-time structure by Professor Erwin Schrödinger is now available in the Cambridge Science Classics series. First published in 1950, and reprinted in 1954 and 1960, this lucid and profound exposition of Einstein's 1915 theory of gravitation still provides valuable reading for students and research workers in the field.

Introduction
Part I. The Unconnected Manifold: 1. Invariance
2. Integrals
Part II. Affinely Connected Manifold: 3. Invariant derivatives
4. Some relations between ordinary and invariant derivatives
5. The notion of parallel transfer
6. The curvature tensor
7. The geodesics of an affine connexion
8. The general geometrical hypothesis about gravitation
Part III. Metrically Connected Manifold: 9. Metrical affinities
10. The meaning of the metric according to the special theory of relativity
11. Conservation laws and variational principles
12. Generalizations of Einstein's theory.

Subject Areas: Relativity physics [PHR]