The Schwarzschild spacetime and cosmological constant, by constructing manifolds of revolution

• Main Author: Teo, Carmen Bin Jie
• Other Authors: Chew Lock Yue
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Science::Physics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/157000
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Einstein’s theory of relativity provides a unified description of gravity as a ge- ometrical property of spacetime. However, Einstein’s equations in this theory are hard to solve as there are essentially 10 highly coupled second order partial differen- tial equations in 4 independent variables to...