GRAVITATION AND COSMOLOGY
Chapter 2: Manifolds

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TEXTBOOK: Spacetime and Geometry - An Introduction to General Relativity, by Sean M. Carroll

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  1. Gravity as Geometry
  2. What Is a Manifold?
  3. Vectors Again
  4. Tensors Again
  5. The Metric
  6. An Expanding Universe
  7. Causality
  8. Tensor Densities
  9. Differential Forms
  10. Integration

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