TY - GEN AU - Beem, John K. AU - Ehrlich, Paul E. AU - Easley, Kevin L. TI - Global Lorentzian geometry T2 - Monographs and textbooks in pure and applied mathematics SN - 0824793242 AV - QA649 PY - 0000///[c996] CY - New York PB - Marcel Dekkar, Inc. N2 - Bridging the gap between modern differential geometry and the mathematical physics of general relativity, this text, in its second edition, includes new and expanded material on topics such as the instability of both geodesic completeness and geodesic incompleteness for general space-times, geodesic connectibility, the generic condition, the sectional curvature function in a neighbourhood of degenerate two-plane, and proof of the Lorentzian Splitting Theorem.;Five or more copies may be ordered by college or university stores at a special student price, available on request.--- summary provided by publisher ER -