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This volume deals with extensions of special relativity, general relativity, and their applications in relation to intragalactic and extragalactic dynamics. The book comprises chapters authored by various researchers and edited by an expert active in the relativity research area. It provides a thorough overview of the latest research efforts by international authors on relativity, opening new possible research paths for further novel developments.

Relativity (Physics)

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Questo libro è stato ideato per un corso che spieghi, nella maniera più semplice possibile, le Teorie della Relatività Ristretta e Generale a studenti che si accostano ad esse per la prima volta. I contenuti di queste due teorie fanno ormai parte del bagaglio culturale necessario ad ogni fisico e ad ogni matematico e, in particolare, esse costituiscono un insieme di conoscenze indispensabili per chiunque si occupi di fisica, astrofisica e cosmologia. This book is designed to explain, in the simplest way possible, the Theories of Special and General Relativity to students who are approaching them for the first time. The contents of these two theories are now part of the cultural background needed by every physicist and mathematician, and, in particular, they constitute an indispensable body of knowledge for anyone involved in physics, astrophysics and cosmology.

Special relativity (Physics)

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A unified theory embracing all physical phenomena is a major goal of theoretical physics. In the early 1980s, many physicists looked to eleven-dimensional supergravity in the hope that it might provide that elusive superunified theory. In 1984 supergravity was knocked off its pedestal by ten-dimensional superstrings, one-dimensional objects whose vibrational modes represent the elementary particles. Superstrings provided a perturbative finite theory of gravity which, after compactification to four spacetime dimensions, seemed in principle capable of explaining the Standard Model. Despite these major successes, however, nagging doubts persisted about superstrings. Then in 1987 and 1992 the elementary supermembrane and its dual partner, the solitonic superfivebrane, were discovered. These are supersymmetric extended objects with respectively two and five dimensions moving in an eleven-dimensional spacetime. Over the period since 1996, perturbative superstrings have been superseded by a new nonperturbative called M-theory, which describes supermembranes and superfivebranes, subsumes string theories, and has as its low-energy limit, eleven-dimensional supergravity. M-theory represents the most exciting development in the subject since 1984 when the superstring revolution first burst on the scene. The first book devoted to M-theory, The World in Eleven Dimensions: Supergravity, Supermembranes and M-Theory brings together seminal papers that have shaped our current understanding of this eleven-dimensional world, from supergravity through supermembranes to M-theory. Each chapter includes commentaries intended to explain the importance of these papers and to place them in a wider perspective. Each chapter also has an extensive bibliography. The book is of interest to researchers and postgraduate students in particle physics, mathematical physics, gravitation, and cosmology.

Supergravity. --- Superunified theories --- Unified theories --- General relativity (Physics) --- Quantum theory --- Supersymmetry --- Nuclear physics --- Physics

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Un exposé de la Relativité Générale d'Einstein qui fut historiquement la première théorie relativiste de la gravitation à fournir des résultats théoriques corrects en accord précis avec les faits ainsi que des éléments conceptuels et techniques permettant d'appréhender sans difficulté l'Astrophysique Relativiste.

Gravitation. --- Relativity (Physics) --- Gravitation --- Nonrelativistic quantum mechanics --- Space and time --- Field theory (Physics) --- Matter --- Physics --- Antigravity --- Centrifugal force --- Properties

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"The aim of this two-volume title is to give a comprehensive review of one hundred years of development of general relativity and its scientific influences. This unique title provides a broad introduction and review to the fascinating and profound subject of general relativity, its historical development, its important theoretical consequences, gravitational wave detection and applications to astrophysics and cosmology. The series focuses on five aspects of the theory: Genesis, Solutions and Energy ; Empirical Foundations ; Gravitational Waves ; Cosmology; Quantum Gravity. The first three topics are covered in Volume 1 and the remaining two are covered in Volume 2. While this is a two-volume title, it is designed so that each volume can be a standalone reference volume for the related topic."--Publisher's website.

General relativity (Physics) --- Gravitational waves --- Cosmology --- Quantum gravity --- History --- Gravitational waves. --- Cosmology. --- Quantum gravity. --- Gravity, Quantum --- Gravitation --- Quantum theory --- Astronomy --- Deism --- Metaphysics --- Gravitational radiation --- Gravity waves (Astrophysics) --- Gravitational fields --- Radiation --- Waves --- Relativistic theory of gravitation --- Relativity theory, General --- Physics --- Relativity (Physics) --- History. --- General relativity (Physics) - History --- General Relativity --- Quantum Gravity --- Gravitational Waves