General Relativity and Cosmology – R. K. SACHS

  • Introduction
  • Summary of Einstein’s theory of gravitation and its mathematical apparatus.
  • Differential forms and integration on manifolds
  • Kinetic Theory**
  • Appendix I
    • Example of a 4-manifold which is not time-orientable
  • Appendix II
    • Geometrical construction of the mass-shell volume element
  • Space-Time Structure from a Global Viewpoint(*)
    • Introduction
    • Topology and manifolds
    • Direction fields, orientation