Classical General Relativity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
This survey paper is divided into two parts. In the first (section 2), I give a brief account of the structure of classical relativity theory. In the second (section 3), I discuss three special topics: (i) the status of the relative simultaneity relation in the context of Minkowski spacetime; (ii) the "geometrized" version of Newtonian gravitation theory (also known as Newton-Cartan theory); and (iii) the possibility of recovering the global geometric structure of spacetime from its "causal structure".
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0506065,
title = {Classical General Relativity},
author = {David B. Malament},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0506065},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
59 pages; 7 figures; to appear in Handbook of the Philosophy of Physics, eds. J. Butterfield and J. Earman, Elsevier