List of contributors | |
Preface | |
An introductory survey | |
The confrontation between gravitation theory and experiment | |
Gravitational-radiation experiments | |
The initial value problem and the dynamical formulation of general relativity | |
Global structure of spacetimes | |
The general theory of the mechanical, electromagnetic and thermodynamic properties of black holes | |
An introduction to the theory of the Kerr metric and its peturbations | |
Black hole astrophysics | |
The big bang cosmology - enigmas and nostrums | |
Cosmology and the early universe | |
Anisotropic and inhomogeneous relativistic cosmologies | |
Singularities and time-asymmetry | |
Quantum field theory in curved spacetime | |
Quantum gravity: the new synthesis | |
The path-integral approach to quantum gravity | |
Ultraviolet divergences in quantum theories of gravitation | |
References | |
Index | |
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