Gravitational lensing from a spacetime perspective

Living Reviews in Relativity

Volumn 7, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Perlick, Volker ^a  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.12942/lrr-2004-9     Document Type: Review

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