時空與幾何(英文版)（簡體書）

這本書旨在讓讀者清晰明了地接觸廣義相對論，廣義相對論的引入，從大爆炸到黑洞，這樣很容易激起讀者對物理學的濃厚興趣。附錄中提供了大量的數學材料來幫助讀者理解正文，而且附錄的很多部分本身也是獨立完整的。本書的結構，第一章主要介紹狹義相對論和基本張量代數，包含一個場論的簡要概述。緊接著的兩章引入流形和曲率，包含一些具有激發性的物理知識，但主要目標是建立數學框架。第四章引入廣義相對論，并且給出一些擇一性定理的討論。緊接著的四章主要討論廣義相對論的三大主要用途：黑洞，擾動理論和引力波，以及宇宙學。這些章節都貫穿有試驗性結論的討論，使得這些理論的實用性馬上顯現出來。本書很適合物理系高年級本科生、研究生以及對廣義相對論感興趣的讀者。 注：本書為全英文版。

1 Special Relativity and Flat Spacetime
1.1 Prelude
1.2 Space and Time, Separately and Together
1.3 Lorentz Transformations
1.4 Vectors
1.5 Dual Vectors (One-Forms)
1.6 Tensors
1.7 Manipulating Tensors
1.8 Maxwells Equations
1.9 Energy and Momentum
1.10 Classical Field Theory
1.11 Exercises
2 Manifolds
2.1 Gravity as Geometry
2.2 What Is a Manifold?
2.3 Vectors Again
2.4 Tensors Again
2.5 The Metric
2.6 An Expanding Universe
2.7 Causality
2.8 Tensor Densities
2.9 Differential Forms
2.10 Integration
2.11 Exercises
3 Curvature
3.1 Overview
3.2 Covariant Derivatives
3.3 Parallel Transport and Geodesics
3.4 Properties of Geodesics
3.5 The Expanding Universe Revisited
3.6 The Riemann Curvature Tensor
3.7 Properties of the Riemann Tensor
3.8 Symmetries and Killing Vectors
3.9 Maximally Symmetric Spaces
3.10 Geodesic Deviation
3.11 Exercises
4 Gravitation
4.1 Physics in Curved Spacetime
4.2 Einsteins Equation
4.3 Lagrangian Formulation
4.4 Properties of Einsteins Equation
4.5 The Cosmological Constant
4.6 Energy Conditions
4.7 The Equivalence Principle Revisited
4.8 Alternative Theories
4.9 Exercises
5 The Schwarzschild Solution
5.1 The Schwarzschild Metric
5.2 Birkhoffs Theorem
5.3 Singularities
5.4 Geodesics of Schwarzschild
5.5 Experimental Tests
5.6 Schwarzschild Black Holes
5.7 The Maximally Extended Schwarzschild Solution
5.8 Stars and Black Holes
5.9 Exercises
6 More General Black Holes
6.1 The Black Hole Zoo
6.2 Event Horizons
6.3 Killing Horizons
6.4 Mass, Charge, and Spin
6.5 Charged (Reissner-Nordstrom) Black Holes
6.6 Rotating (Kerr) Black Holes
6.7 The Penrose Process and Black-Hole Thermodynamics
6.8 Exercises
7 Perturbation Theory and Gravitational Radiation
8 Cosmology
9 Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime
APPENDIXES
Bibliography
Index