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General Relativity Today

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-05-13 v1

Abstract

After recalling the conceptual foundations and the basic structure of general relativity, we review some of its main modern developments (apart from cosmology) : (i) the post-Newtonian limit and weak-field tests in the solar system, (ii) strong gravitational fields and black holes, (iii) strong-field and radiative tests in binary pulsar observations, (iv) gravitational waves, (v) general relativity and quantum theory.

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@article{arxiv.0704.0754,
  title  = {General Relativity Today},
  author = {Thibault Damour},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.0754},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

49 pages, 5 figures, talk given at the Poincar\'e Seminar ``Gravitation et Exp\'erience'' (28 October 2006, Paris); to appear in the proceedings to be published by Birkh\"auser