Springer Handbook on Spacetime

Springer Handbook of Spacetime

Most of the chapters were published on the arXiv, so here's the list of chapters linked to the preprints.

Preface (A. Ashtekar, V. Petkov).

Part A – Introduction to Spacetime Structure.

1. From Aether Theory to Special Relativity (Rafael Ferraro)
2. The Historical Origins of Spacetime (Scott Walter)
3. Relativity Today. (Nick Woodhouse)
4. Acceleration and Gravity: Einstein's Principle. (Lewis Ryder)
5. The Geometry of Newton's and Einstein's Theories. (Graham Hall)
6. Time in Special Relativity. (Dennis Dieks)

Part B – Foundational Issues.

7. Rigid Motion and Adapted Frames. (Stephen Lyle)
8. Physics as Spacetime Geometry. (Vesselin Petkov)
9. Electrodynamics of Radiating Charges. (Oyvind Gron)
10. The Nature and Origin of Time-Asymmetric Spacetime Structures (H. Dieter Zeh)
11. Teleparallelism: A new Insight into Gravity (Jose Pereira)
12. Gravity and the Spacetime: An Emergent Perspective. (Thanu Padmanabhan)
13. Spacetime and the Passage of Time (George Ellis, Ritupamo Goswami)
14. Unitary Representations of the Inhomogeneous Lorentz Group and Their Significance in Quantum Physics (Norbert Straumann)

Part C – Spacetime Structure and Mathematics.

15. Spinors. (Robert Geroch)
16. The Initial Value Problem in General Relativity (James Isenberg)
17. Dynamical and Hamiltonian Formulation of General Relativity (D Giulini)
18. Positive Energy Theorems in General Relativity (Sergio Dain)
19. Conserved Charges in Asymptotically (Locally) AdS Spacetimes
20. Spacetime Singularities (Pankaj Joshi)
21. Singularities in Cosmological Spacetimes. (Beverly Berger)

Part D – Confronting Relativity theories with observations.

22. The experimental status of Special and General Relativity (Orfeu Bertolami, Jorge Paramos)
23. Observational Constraints on Local Lorentz Invariance
24. Relativity in GNSS. (Neil Ashby)
25. Quasi Local Black Hole Horizons (Badri Krishnan)
26. Gravitational Astronomy. (B Suryananarayana Sathyaprakash)
27. Probing Dynamical Spacetimes with Gravitational Waves

Part E – General Relativity and the Universe.

28. Einstein's Equation, Cosmology and Astrophysics (Paul Wesson)
29. Viscous Universe Models.
30. Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker Cosmology.
31. Exact Approach to Inflationary Universe Models (Sergio del Campo)
32. Cosmology with the Cosmic Microwave Background. (Tarun Souradeep)

Part F – Spacetime Beyond Einstein.

33. Quantum Gravity. (Claus Kiefer)
34. Quantum Gravity via Causal Dynamical Triangulations (J. Ambjorn, A. Goerlich, J. Jurkiewicz, R. Loll)
35. String Theory and Primordial Cosmology
36. Quantum Spacetime. (Carlo Rovelli)
37. Gravity, Geometry and the Quantum. (Hanno Sahlmann)
38. Spin Foams (Jonathan Engle)
39. Loop Quantum Cosmology (Ivan Agullo, Alejandro Corichi)

• Acknowledgements.
• About the Authors.
• Subject Index.