Scattering from Black Holes (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:J. A. H. Futterman

页数:204

出版时间:2009-06-11

价格:USD 45.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780521112109

丛书系列:Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics

图书标签:物理数学CambridgeCUPCMMP

This book investigates the propagation of waves in the presence of black holes. Astrophysical black holes may eventually be probed by these techniques. The authors emphasise intuitive physical thinking in their treatment of the techniques of analysis of scattering, but alternate this with chapters on the rigourous mathematical development of the subject. High and low energy limiting cases are treated extensively and semi-classical results are also obtained. The analogy between Newtonian gravitational scattering and Coulomb quantum mechanical scattering is fully exploited. The book introduces the concepts of scattering by considering the simplest, scalar wave case of scattering by a spherical black hole. It then develops the formalism of spin-weighted spheroidal harmonics and of plane wave representations for neutrino, electromagnetic and gravitational scattering. Research workers and graduate and advanced undergraduate students in scattering theory, wave propagation and relativity will find this a comprehensive treatment of the topic.