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BL
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590973
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GB9614539b420192
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O'Neill, Barrett
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| Title & Author
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The geometry of Kerr black holes /\ Barrett O'Neill
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xvii, 381 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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1568810199
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: 9781568810195
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-370) and index
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| Contents
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Ch. 1. Background. 1.1. Manifolds. 1.2. Tensors. 1.3. Differential Geometry. 1.4. Extending Manifolds. 1.5. Lorentz Vector Spaces. 1.6. Introduction to General Relativity. 1.7. Submanifolds. 1.8. Cartan Computations -- Ch. 2. Beginning Kerr Spacetime. 2.1. The Kerr Metric. 2.2. Boyer-Lindquist Blocks. 2.3. Special Submanifolds. 2.4. Ergosphere and Time Machine. 2.5. Kerr-star Spacetime. 2.6. Connection Forms. 2.7. Kerr Curvature a la Cartan -- Ch. 3. Maximal Extensions. 3.1. Star-Kerr Spacetime. 3.2. Maximal Extreme Kerr Spacetime. 3.3. Extending Slow Kerr Spacetime. 3.4. Building the Crossing Spheres. 3.5. Maximal Slow Kerr Spacetime. 3.6. Bundle Structure of Kerr Spacetime. 3.7. Isometries of Boyer-Lindquist Blocks. 3.8. Isometries of M[subscript e] and M[subscript s]. 3.9. Topology of Kerr Spacetime. 3.10. Kerr Chronology -- Ch. 4. Kerr Geodesics. 4.1. First-Integrals. 4.2. Carter Constant. 4.3. Equations and Extensions. 4.4. Crossing Horizons
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Kerr black holes-- Mathematics
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Geometry
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Géométrie
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Kerr, Trous noirs de - Mathématiques
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| Dewey Classification
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523.8/875
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QB843.B55O54 1995
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