Anyone know of a book that focuses on the solutions of Einstein's equation,
rather than the derivation of those solutions?
I'm a high school student that has read up on the minkowski and schwarzchild
solutions, and understand some of their meaning in the context of solving
physical problems. But, I'd like a book that dives into the other solutions,
without analyzing the tensor calculus involved in their derivations.
So far I've came across the excellent arxiv gr-qc/0004016 article "The role
of exact solutions of Einstein's equations in the developments of general
relativity". That's good, but does anyone know of something else like it...
preferrably in book form?

- Michael Sabino

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Anyone know of a book that focuses on the solutions of Einstein's
equation,
rather than the derivation of those solutions?
I'm a high school student that has read up on the minkowski and
schwarzchild
solutions, and understand some of their meaning in the context of solving
physical problems. But, I'd like a book that dives into the other
solutions,
without analyzing the tensor calculus involved in their derivations.
So far I've came across the excellent arxiv gr-qc/0004016 article "The
role
of exact solutions of Einstein's equations in the developments of general
relativity". That's good, but does anyone know of something else like
it...
preferrably in book form?

- Michael Sabino



Take a look at
"Exact Solutions to Einstein's Field Equations" 2nd Edition by Hans
Stephanie, etc
published by Cambridge

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Michael S. wrote:
Anyone know of a book that focuses on the solutions of Einstein's equation,
rather than the derivation of those solutions?

Has Stephani et al., _Exact Solutions to Einstein's Field Equations_,
Second Edition (Cambridge University Press, 2003). The first edition
has been out of print for a while, but if your library can get that, it
should do fine.

There's also an online database at
http://www.maths.soton.ac.uk/staff/d...erno/database/
but this may require too much starting knowledge.


Just out of curiosity, do these works also present some kindof interpretation of
what these solutions physically would
represent?

And, in terms of the original poster's question, it wouldn't hurt
to point out that every exact solution assumes some kind of symmetry
and boundary conditions of the solution. There are a lot more solutions
out there that will never be found.

John Anderson

John Anderson wrote:

wrote:

Michael S. wrote:
Anyone know of a book that focuses on the solutions of Einstein's
equation, rather than the derivation of those solutions?

Has Stephani et al., _Exact Solutions to Einstein's Field Equations_,
Second Edition (Cambridge University Press, 2003). The first edition
has been out of print for a while, but if your library can get that, it
should do fine.

There's also an online database at
http://www.maths.soton.ac.uk/staff/d...erno/database/
but this may require too much starting knowledge.

Just out of curiosity, do these works also present some kindof
interpretation of what these solutions physically would
represent?

Mostly not, though there's a little discussion in a few examples
in Stephani et al.

Steve Carlip