General Relativity: an Einstein Centenary Survey

List of contributors Preface 1. An introductory survey S. W. Hawking and W. Israel 2. The confrontation between gravitation theory and experiment C. M. Will 3. Gravitational-radiation experiments D. H. Douglass and V. B. Braginsky 4. The initial value problem and the dynamical formulation of general relativity A. E. Fischer and J. E. Marsden 5. Global structure of spacetimes R. Geroch and G. T. Horowitz 6. The general theory of the mechanical, electromagnetic and thermodynamic properties of black holes B. Carter 7. An introduction to the theory of the Kerr metric and its peturbations S. Chandrasekhar 8. Black hole astrophysics R. D. Blandford and K. S. Thorne 9. The big bang cosmology - enigmas and nostrums R. H. Dicke and P. J. E. Peebles 10. Cosmology and the early universe Ya B. Zel'dovitch 11. Anisotropic and inhomogeneous relativistic cosmologies M. A. H. MacCallum 12. Singularities and time-asymmetry R. Penrose 13. Quantum field theory in curved spacetime G. W. Gibbons 14. Quantum gravity: the new synthesis B. S. DeWitt 15. The path-integral approach to quantum gravity S. W. Hawking 16. Ultraviolet divergences in quantum theories of gravitation S. Weinberg References Index.

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