Space-time structure / Erwin Schrödinger.

Reprint. Originally published 1950.

Print version record.

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.

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; INTRODUCTION; PART I: THE UNCONNECTED MANIFOLD; I Invariance; Vectors and Tensors; II Integrals. Densities. Derivatives; Integrals; Densities; Derivatives; PART II: AFFINELY CONNECTED MANIFOLD; III Invariant Derivatives; IV Some Relations between Ordinary and Invariant Derivatives; V The Notion of Parallel Transfer; VI The Curvature Tensor; The question of integrability; The curvature tensor; VII The Geodesies of an Affine Connexion; VIII The General Geometrical Hypothesis about Gravitation; The underlying idea

The law of gravitationPART III : METRICALLY CONNECTED MANIFOLD; IX Metrical Affinities; General investigation; Some important facts and relations; Geodesic coordinates; X The Meaning of the Metric According to the Special Theory of Relativity; XI Conservation Laws and Variational Principles; The elementary notion of conservation laws; How conservation laws follow from a variational principle inclassical (pre-relativistic) theories, ; Conservation laws in general relativity; Einstein's variational principle; Non-invariant form of the conservation laws; XII Generalizations of Einstein's Theory

An alternative derivation of Einstein's field equationsThe Einstein-Straus-theory; The purely affine theory; Discussion of the preceding theories; Mathematical appendix to Chapter xii

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