List of mathematical topics in relativity

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This is a list of mathematical topics in relativity, by Wikipedia page.

[edit] Special relativity

• Foundational issues
  • principle of relativity
  • speed of light
  • faster than light
• four-vector
  • four-acceleration
  • four-force
  • four-momentum
  • four-velocity
• light-like
• Lorentz covariance
• Lorentz group
• Lorentz transformation
• Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction hypothesis
• Minkowski space
• Poincaré group
• proper length
• relativistic wave equations
• relativistic mass
• world line

[edit] General relativity

• black holes
  • no hair theorem
  • Hawking radiation
  • Hawking temperature
  • Black hole entropy
  • charged black hole
  • rotating black hole
  • micro black hole
  • Schwarzschild black hole
  • Schwarzschild metric
  • Schwarzschild radius
  • Reissner-Nordström black hole
  • Immirzi parameter
• closed timelike curve
• cosmic censorship hypothesis
• chronology protection conjecture
• Einstein-Cartan theory
• Einstein's field equation
• geodesic
• gravitational redshift
• Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems
• stress-energy tensor
• worm hole

[edit] Cosmology

• anti de Sitter space
• Ashtekar variables
• Batalin-Vilkovisky
• big bang
• Cauchy horizon
• cosmic inflation
• cosmic microwave background
• cosmic variance
• cosmological constant
• dark energy
• dark matter
• de Sitter space
• Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker
• horizon problem
• large-scale structure of the cosmos
• Randall-Sundrum model
• warped geometry
• Weyl curvature hypothesis