Advanced Lectures on General Relativity

✍ Scribed by COMPERE, GEOFFREY

• Publisher: SPRINGER NATURE
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 148
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

These lecture notes are intended for starting PhD students in theoretical physics who have a working knowledge of General Relativity. The four topics covered are:

1. Surface charges as conserved quantities in theories of gravity;
   
2. Classical and holographic features of three-dimensional Einstein gravity;
   
3. Asymptotically flat spacetimes in four dimensions: BMS group and memory effects;
   
4. The Kerr black hole: properties at extremality and quasi-normal mode ringing.
   

Each topic starts with historical foundations and points to a few modern research directions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-x
Surface Charges in Gravitation (Geoffrey Compère)....Pages 1-33
Three Dimensional Einstein’s Gravity (Geoffrey Compère)....Pages 35-79
Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes (Geoffrey Compère)....Pages 81-102
Rotating Black Holes (Geoffrey Compère)....Pages 103-140