Advanced General Relativity Notes

Abstract: These lecture notes are intended as a guide to Graduate level readers that are already familiar with basic General Relativity. They present in a concise way some advanced concepts and problems encountered in the study of gravitation. In these notes are covered: Alternates forms of the Schwarzschild Black Hole solution, including the classic Kruskal extension; An account of the building of Conformal, Carter-Penrose, diagrams; A discussion of Birkhoff Theorem; A discussion of tools for Geodesics and congruences, including Energy Conditions; A discussion of Horizons and an approach to some of the singularity theorems; An exploration of the Kerr Black Hole solution properties, including the Penrose Process and Black Hole Thermodynamics; A discussion of the Eckart and Israel-Stewart Relativistic Thermodynamics; A discussion of Tetrads in Relativity, in Einstein-Cartan theory and in Newman-Penrose formalism; An explicitation of calculations on Geodesics approach from Hamilton-Jacobi Formalism; A derivation from Least action of the equation of Motion of a top in Relativity, the M.P.D. equations