Where can I find "Survey of gravitational radiation theory" F.A.E PIRANI

[yicong2011]

Where can I find


Survey of gravitational radiation theory F.A.E PIRANI


I cannot find it in the library in my Univ. AND it is not available on google book.



Desperate

[robphy]

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1962rdgr.book...89P

www.worldcat.org/title/recent-developments-in-general-relativity/oclc/1374905 (http://www.worldcat.org/title/recent-developments-in-general-relativity/oclc/1374905)
(is there an interlibrary loan service?)

[Bill_K]

yicong, This was a US Air Force document issued when Pirani was working at Wright-Patterson. I'm not surprised it is hard to locate a copy. I thought I had a copy myself but can't find it. By now it's very much out of date, of course, and I would think that any important results in it will have been published elsewhere. Is there something specific in it you're looking for?

[yicong2011]

yicong, This was a US Air Force document issued when Pirani was working at Wright-Patterson. I'm not surprised it is hard to locate a copy. I thought I had a copy myself but can't find it. By now it's very much out of date, of course, and I would think that any important results in it will have been published elsewhere. Is there something specific in it you're looking for?
Actually, I have been bogged down in "Petrov Classification" for several weeks. Now, I have understand some aspects of this issue, but far from a clear understanding I strive for. Many G.R books do not make it very clear. My professor recommend Landau's The Classical Theory of Fields. But I don't think Landau's fits me very much, although I have understand some aspects of Petrov Classification of Landau's.

At least, Landau's does not say anything on the physical significance of each type, like plane wave, pp wave... Someone else told me that F.A.E PIRANI's is very good reference. So I just try to find it.

If I cannot access F.A.E PIRANI's, I will read "Exact Solutions of Einstein's Field Equations" (Hans Stephani, Dietrich Kramer, Malcolm MacCallum,...) in summer. This book includes everything I need. Like Petrov Classification, Shear free congruence, Algebraically degenerate.

Louis Witten's Gravitation: An introduction to current research also quite good on Shear free congruence.

[George Jones]

For expansion, shear, and vorticity of congruences, try section 31.2 from the third edition of Relativity: An Introduction to Special and General Relativity by Stephani and sections 15.1 - 15.3 from An Introduction to General Relativity and Cosmology by Plebanski and Krasinski. For Petrov classification, you might try section 7.16 and chapter 11 of Plebanski and Krasinski.

[robphy]

Possibly useful:
http://www.ksu.ru/petrov2010/index.php?id=9&idm=5

http://www.ksu.ru/petrov2010/petrov_UZ.pdf
http://petrov2010.ksu.ru/classific.doc