Cosmic Strings and Other Topological Defects

Vilenkin, A. & E.P.S. Shellard

ISBN 10: 0521391539 / ISBN 13: 9780521391535

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Beschreibung

Original boards, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous equations, graphs and diagrams, 8vo. Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 350038-ZB2

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Cosmic Strings and Other Topological Defects

Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 1994

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

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Inhaltsangabe:

Now in paperback, this book is the first comprehensive and coherent introduction to the role of cosmic strings and other topological defects in the universe. Ample introductory material makes the book accessible to the wide audience of particle physicists, astrophysicists and cosmologists for whom this topic is of immediate interest.

Críticas:

'... a unique survey of one of the most fascinating and rapidly developing topics in which the theory of particles and astrophysics are combined in an intriguing way.' Yuri N. Obukhov, General Relativity and Gravitation