Download or read book Ernst Equation and Riemann Surfaces written by Christian Klein and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-11-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exact solutions to Einstein’s equations have been useful for the understanding of general relativity in many respects. They have led to such physical concepts as black holes and event horizons, and helped to visualize interesting features of the theory. This volume studies the solutions to the Ernst equation associated to Riemann surfaces in detail. In addition, the book discusses the physical and mathematical aspects of this class analytically as well as numerically.