Homogeneous Relativistic Cosmologies / / Lawrence C. Shepley, Michael P. Ryan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Ryan, Michael P.,; Shepley, Lawrence C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1975
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Series in Physics ; 65
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (338 p.)

Addressing a variety of theoretical cosmological problems, and emphasizing a mathematical approach, this volume nicely complements Peebles' Physical Cosmology (Princeton Series in Physics, 1971). Ryan and Shepley have concentrated on the structure of models of the universe. By using a modern terminology that emphasizes the operator nature of vectors and tensors, as opposed to their components in a particular coordinate system, the authors develop modern tensor analysis to the point where it can be applied to general relativistic cosmology. They then use it to describe homogeneous cosmologies in considerable detail. Both students and researchers are likely to find these techniques especially useful.Among their subjects are: spaces with groups of motions; singularities; Taub-NUT-Misner space; Bianchitype models; Hamiltonian cosmology; and perturbations in anisotropic models. A brief section on observations is also included, as is a complete bibliography. A final section presents graded exercises that underscore the potential yet unrealized in this area of study.Originally published in 1975.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- 1. Cosmology: The Study of Universes -- 2. Geometry In the Language of Forms -- 3. Spacetime and Fluid Flow -- 4. Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Models: Begin with a Bang -- 5. Singularities in a Spacetime -- 6. Isometries of Space and Spacetime -- 7. Universes Homogeneous in Space and Time -- 8. T-Nut-M Space - Open to Closed to Open -- 9. The General Spatially Homogeneous Model in the Synchronous System -- 10. Singularities in Spatially Homogeneous Models -- 11. Hamiltonian Cosmology -- 12. Type I Models and Type IX Models - The Simplest and the Most Interesting -- 13. Numerical Techniques -- 14. Astrophysical Studies in Anisotropic Type I Models -- 15. Final Remarks: What Is, What Is Not, and What Should Be -- Exercises and Problems -- Bibliography -- Index