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Spacetime topology

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Covers Lorentz-Minkowski spacetime, speed of light interpretation, isometries, and special relativity principles.

Explores spacetime structure, 4-vectors, Lorentz force, and dispersion relation in relativistic motion.

Maxwell Equations and Minkowski Spacetime

Explores Maxwell equations, Minkowski spacetime, Lorentz transformations, charge conservation, and spacetime structure in physics.

Proper Time: Lorentz Transformations

Explores worldlines, Lorentz transformations, proper time intervals, and inertial reference frames in relativistic physics.

General Relativity: Predictions and Observations

Explores general relativity, focusing on predictions and observations, including gravitational lensing, black holes, and cosmology.

Causality and Inertial Universes

Explores causal relations, inertial universes, and proper time in spacetime.

Spherically Symmetric Metrics

Explores spherically symmetric metrics in flat space and their implications in gravity and spacetime.

Conformal Symmetries in Euclidean and AdS Spaces

Explores conformal symmetries in Euclidean and AdS spaces, isometries, induced metric, Poincaré coordinates, and boundary structure.

Causal Structure of Spacetime

Explores the causal structure of spacetime in special relativity, focusing on the relativistic interval and Lorentz transformations.

Conformal Algebra: Transformations and Correlation Functions

Explores conformal algebra, transformations, and correlation functions of primary operators in curved spacetimes.

Holography in Classical Gravity

Explores hints of holography in classical black hole thermodynamics.

Gravitational Instabilities of Spacetime

Explores gravitational instabilities in spacetime, focusing on bubbles of nothing and their implications for vacuum stability and supersymmetry breaking.

Gravitational Field Equations

Covers the formulation of gravitational field equations and the motion of particles in gravitational fields.