Relativist's Toolkit The Mathematics of Black-Hole Mechanics

This textbook fills a gap in the literature on general relativity by providing the advanced student with practical tools for the computation of many physically interesting quantities. The context is provided by the mathematical theory of black holes, one of the most elegant, successful and relevant applications of general relativity. Topics discussed include congruences of timelike and null geodesics, the embedding of spacelike, timelike and null hypersurfaces in spacetime, and the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of general relativity. Suitable for graduate students and researchers in gravitational physics.Poisson, Eric is the author of 'Relativist's Toolkit The Mathematics of Black-Hole Mechanics' with ISBN 9780521830911 and ISBN 0521830915.