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1、GENERALRELATIVITYRobertM.WaldTheUniversityofChicagoPressChicagoandLondonGENERALRELATIVITYRobertM.WaldTheUniversityofChicagoPressChicagoandLondonThepaintingreproducedonthecoverofthepaperbackversionofthisbookisRendMagritte'sLesBellesRealites,OObyADAGP,Paris,1984.Thetran

2、sparencywasfurnishedbyGalerieIsyBrachot,Bruxelles-Paris.TheUniversityofChicagoPress,Chicago60637TheUniversityofChicagoPress,Ltd.,LondonD1984byTheUniversityofChicagoAllrightsreserved.Published1984PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica0403020100999897969589101112LibraryofCon

3、gressCataloginginPublicationDataWald,RobertM.Generalrelativity.Bibliography:p.473Includesindex.1.Generalrelativity(Physics)I.Title.QC173.6.W351984530.1'183-17969ISBN0-226-87033-2(pbk.)Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaper.CONTENTSPrefaceixNotationandConventionsxiPARTI.FUN

4、DAMENTALS1.Introduction31.1Introduction31.2SpaceandTimeinPrerelativityPhysicsandinSpecialRelativity41.3TheSpacetimeMetric61.4GeneralRelativity82.ManifoldsandTensorFields112.1Manifolds112.2Vectors142.3Tensors;theMetricTensor182.4TheAbstractIndexNotation233.Curvature293

5、.1DerivativeOperatorsandParallelTransport303.2Curvature363.3Geodesics413.4MethodsforComputingCurvature474.Einstein'sEquation554.1TheGeometryofSpaceinPrerelativityPhysics;GeneralandSpecialCovariance554.2SpecialRelativity594.3GeneralRelativity664.4LinearizedGravity:TheN

6、ewtonianLimitandGravitationalRadiation745.Homogeneous,IsotropicCosmology915.1HomogeneityandIsotropy915.2DynamicsofaHomogeneous,IsotropicUniverse96vviContents5.3TheCosmologicalRedshift;Horizons1015.4TheEvolutionofOurUniverse1076.TheSchwarzschildSolution1186.1Derivation

7、oftheSchwarzschildSolution1196.2InteriorSolutions1256.3GeodesicsofSchwarzschild:GravitationalRedshift,PerihelionPrecession,BendingofLight,andTimeDelay1366.4TheKruskalExtension148PARTII.ADVANCEDTOPICS7.MethodsforSolvingEinstein'sEquation1617.1Stationary,AxisymmetricSol

8、utions1627.2SpatiallyHomogeneousCosmologies1687.3AlgebraicallySpecialSolutions1797.4MethodsforGeneratingSolutions1807.5Pertu