# Concepts from Tensor Analysis and Differential Geometry

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An international conference on Geometry, Quantum Topology and Asymptotics will take place during June 30-July 4, 2014 at the Confucius Institute of the University of Geneva, Switzerland. They also cover certain aspects of the theory of exterior differential systems. When we apply GR to cosmology, we make use of the simplifying assumptions, backed up by observations, that there exists a definition of time such that at a fixed value of time, the universe is spatially homogeneous (looks the same wherever the observer is) and isotropic (looks the same in all directions around a point).

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Publisher: Academic Press; 2nd Ed. edition (1965)

ISBN: 0126884625

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