TY - BOOK ID - 77861348 TI - Gravitational solitons AU - Belinski, V AU - Verdaguer, E PY - 2001 SN - 110712381X 1280433442 9786610433445 0511173962 0511041705 0511153325 0511303416 0511535252 0511044038 9780511041709 9780511535253 9780511044038 9780511028762 0511028768 9780511153327 0521805864 9780521805865 0521018064 9780521018067 9781280433443 6610433445 9780511173967 9780511303418 PB - Cambridge, U.K. New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Solitons. KW - Gravitational waves. KW - Gravitational radiation KW - Gravity waves (Astrophysics) KW - General relativity (Physics) KW - Gravitational fields KW - Radiation KW - Waves KW - Pulses, Solitary wave KW - Solitary wave pulses KW - Wave pulses, Solitary KW - Connections (Mathematics) KW - Nonlinear theories KW - Wave-motion, Theory of UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77861348 AB - This 2001 book gives a self-contained exposition of the theory of gravitational solitons and provides a comprehensive review of exact soliton solutions to Einstein's equations. The text begins with a detailed discussion of the extension of the Inverse Scattering Method to the theory of gravitation, starting with pure gravity and then extending it to the coupling of gravity with the electromagnetic field. There follows a systematic review of the gravitational soliton solutions based on their symmetries. These solutions include some of the most interesting in gravitational physics such as those describing inhomogeneous cosmological models, cylindrical waves, the collision of exact gravity waves, and the Schwarzschild and Kerr black holes. A valuable reference for researchers and graduate students in the fields of general relativity, string theory and cosmology, this book will also be of interest to mathematical physicists in general. ER -