Relativistic figures of equilibrium

Relativistic Figures of Equilibrium

Volumn 9780521863834, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-218

  Meinel, Reinhard ^a   Ansorg, Marcus ^b   Kleinwächter, Andreas ^a   Neugebauer, Gernot ^c   Petroff, David ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; GRAVITATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; STARS;

BASIC PRINCIPLES; CLASSICAL PROBLEMS; CONSTANT DENSITY; EINSTEIN'S THEORY; GENERAL RELATIVITY; GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS;

RELATIVITY;

EID: 84927044181     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511535154     Document Type: Book

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