Advanced Lectures on General Relativity

by Geoffrey Compère

Overview

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:

• Surface charges as conserved quantities in theories of gravity;

• Classical and holographic features of three-dimensional Einstein gravity;

• Asymptotically flat spacetimes in four dimensions: BMS group and memory effects;

• 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030042592
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	02/01/2019
Series:	Lecture Notes in Physics , #952
Edition description:	1st ed. 2019
Pages:	140
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Geoffrey Compère is a FNRS Research Associate at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. His research, as a theoretical physicist, focuses on surface charges in gravitation, the physics of black holes close to extremality, supergravity and infinite-dimensional symmetries, topics on which he has authored over 50 papers. He developed the package SurfaceCharges for Mathematica which allows to compute surface charges in gravitation coupled to matter. He is the recipient of an ERC Starting Grant addressing the holographic properties of black holes. As a member of the LISA consortium and of the Belgian Gravitational Wave Center, he is currently developing waveform models to confront General Relativity with upcoming high-precision gravitational wave observations.

Table of Contents

Surface charges in Gravitation.- Three dimensional Einstein gravity.- Asymptotically flat spacetime.- Rotating black holes.

Editorial Reviews

In accordance with the author’s aim to target young PhD students in physics or postdocs, these lecture notes have definitely been written in the language and style of physicists.” (Gabor Etesi, zbMath 1419.83003, 2019)

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