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AMATH 875Introduction to General Relativity with Applications to Cosmology

Units
0.50
Level
Graduate
Faculty
Mathematics
Subject
Applied Mathematics
Cross-listed
PHYS 786

When it runs

  1. F24
  2. W25
  3. S25
  4. F25
  5. W26
  6. S26
  7. F26
  8. W27
  9. S27

Ran in 0 of the last 7 terms. Winter 2027: not on the schedule. Spring 2027: schedule not out yet.

Introduction to the differential geometry of Lorentzian manifolds. The priniciples of general relativity. Causal structure and cosmological singularities. Cosmological space-times with Killing vector fields. Friedmann-Lemaitre cosmologies, scalar, vector and tensor perburbations in the linear and nonlinear regimes. De Sitter space-times and inflationary models.

Prerequisites

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Antirequisites

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Leads to

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Discussed on r/uwaterloo

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Fall 2017

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