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General relativity is the theory of the structure and dynamics of spacetime. These lecture notes provide an introduction into the concepts of differential geometry, in particular pseudo-Riemannian geometry, and discuss the ideas behind the construction of a gravitational field equation. [...]

The Department of Astronomy at Xiamen University, one of the earliest in modern Chinese history, was founded by Prof. Ching-Sung Yu in 1927. [...]

The development of associative algebra during the last century has resulted in the emergence of numerous theories or specialties that have offered solutions to many of the needs of the society in which we live, increasingly developed from a technological point of view. These needs fall into two broad groups: purely technological needs and theoretical needs associated with developments in both applied algebra and other branches of mathematics. [...]

Cosmological models are mathematical frameworks designed to describe the evolution and large-scale behavior of the Universe, grounded in observational evidence and primarily based on general relativity. By extending or modifying the gravitational sector, these models lead to different field equations and distinct cosmological implications, playing a central role in modern cosmology and shaping our understanding of fundamental physical phenomena. [...]

This open-access book celebrates fifty years of the quest to understand quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a form of extremely hot and dense matter that existed in the first microseconds after the Big Bang and may still play a role today in the interiors of neutron stars. Over the past decades, scientists have developed the capability to recreate this extreme state of matter under laboratory conditions through high-energy collisions of heavy atomic nuclei in powerful particle accelerators [...]

This open access book introduces graduate students with some collider phenomenology expertise to the rapidly advancing field of jet substructure physics. The second edition improves the presentation of theoretical topics, including soft factorization, and offers updates on novel jet substructure algorithms, tools, and recent experimental findings [...]

Chiral Perturbation Theory, as effective field theory, is a commonly accepted and well established working tool, approximating quantum chromodynamics at energies well below typical hadron masses. This volume, based on a number of lectures and supplemented with additional material, provides a pedagogical introduction for graduate students and newcomers entering the field from related areas of nuclear and particle physics [...]