作者简介 肖恩·卡罗尔(Sean M. Carroll)是美国加州理工学院的理论物理学家,主要从事宇宙学、场论、量子力学和引力的研究。卡罗尔博士毕业于哈佛大学,曾在麻省理工学院、加州大学圣芭芭拉分校和芝加哥大学任教。他是美国物理学会的杰出会士(APS Fellow),并曾被评为美国国家科学基金会的杰出讲师(NSF Distinguished Lecturer),他获得过古根海姆奖(Guggenheim Fellowship)和美国物理联合会的安德鲁·杰曼特奖(Andrew Gemant Award)等。卡罗尔还热衷于大众科学传播,他在TED及各种知名科普电视节目上做演说,经常在《纽约时报》《华尔街日报》《自然》《科学美国人》《新科学人》《天空与望远镜》等报刊上发表科普文章,并著有《从永恒到此刻》(From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time)、《寻找希格斯粒子》(The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Hunt for the Higgs Boson Leads Us to the Edge of a New World)、《大图景:论生命的起源、意义和宇宙本身》(The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself)、《隐藏的宇宙》(Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime)等科普书。
目录 Preface 1 - Special Relativity and Flat Spacetime 2 - Manifolds 3 - Curvature 4 - Gravitation 5 - The Schwarzschild Solution 6 - More General Black Holes 7 - Perturbation Theory and Gravitational Radiation 8 - Cosmology 9 - Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime APPENDIXES Appendix A - Maps between Manifolds Appendix B - Diffeomorphisms and Lie Derivatives Appendix C - Submanifolds Appendix D - Hypersurfaces Appendix E - Stokess Theorem Appendix F - Geodesic Congruences Appendix G - Conformal Transformations Appendix H - Conformal Diagrams Appendix I - The Parallel Propagator Appendix J - Noncoordinate Bases Bibliography
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