Introduction to General Relativity with Applications to Cosmology

Subject:

Physics (PHYS)

Catalog number:

786

Unit weight:

0.50

Meet type:

LEC

Grading basis:

NUM

Cross-listing(s):

AMATH-875

Requisites:

N/A

Description:

Introduction to the differential geometry of Lorentzian manifolds. The priniciples of general relativity. Causal structure and cosmological singularities. Cosmological space-times with Killing vector fields. Friedmann-Lemaitre cosmologies, scalar, vector and tensor perburbations in the linear and nonlinear regimes. De Sitter space-times and inflationary models.

Topic titles:

N/A

Faculty:

Science (SCI)

Academic level:

GRD

Course ID:

011282