Rotating Objects and Relativistic Physics: Proceedings of the El Escorial Summer School on Gravitation and General Relativity 1992: Rotating Objects and Other Topics Held at El Escorial, Spain, 24–28 August 1992

This book addresses physicists working in general

relativity, astrophysics and cosmology. The contributions

are based on reports given at a summer school the goal of

which was to review modern research for students. The school

was centered on the study of gravitational fields

corresponding to rotating objects of astrophysical interest,

under different viewpoints: theoretical, numerical and

observational. Special emphasis is put on the analysis of

interior and exterior fields of stationary axisymmetric

systems. Lectures and contributions, collected here in Part

I, ranged from basic information useful to newcomers to

technical points pertaining to current research in this

area. Part II contains lectures and contributions on other

aspects of gravitation theory.