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020 _a0824793242
040 _aICTS-TIFR
050 _aQA649
100 _aBeem, John K.
245 _aGlobal Lorentzian geometry
260 _bMarcel Dekkar, Inc.
_c[c996]
_aNew York:
300 _a635 p.
490 _aMonographs and textbooks in pure and applied mathematics
_v67
520 _aBridging the gap between modern differential geometry and the mathematical physics of general relativity, this text, in its second edition, includes new and expanded material on topics such as the instability of both geodesic completeness and geodesic incompleteness for general space-times, geodesic connectibility, the generic condition, the sectional curvature function in a neighbourhood of degenerate two-plane, and proof of the Lorentzian Splitting Theorem.;Five or more copies may be ordered by college or university stores at a special student price, available on request.--- summary provided by publisher
700 _a Ehrlich, Paul E.
700 _aEasley, Kevin L.
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_cBK
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