Robert Geroch

Geroch obtained his Ph.D. degree from Princeton University in 1967 under the supervision of John Archibald Wheeler, with a thesis on Singularities in the spacetime of general relativity: their definition, existence, and local characterization.{{MathGenealogy |id=92456}}

• {{cite book | last=Geroch | first=Robert |editor-last1=Esposito|editor-first1=F. P.|editor-last2=Witten|editor-first2=L.| title=Asymptotic Structure of Space-Time | chapter=Asymptotic Structure of Space-Time | publisher=Springer US | publication-place=Boston, MA | date=1977 | isbn=978-1-4684-2345-7 | doi=10.1007/978-1-4684-2343-3_1}}
• Horowitz, G.T and Geroch, R.P. (1979) "Global structure of spacetimes", p. 212–293. In Hawking S.W. and Israel, W (eds): General Relativity: An Einstein Centenary Survey. Cambridge University Press 1979 ({{ISBN|9780521299282}})

• {{cite journal | last=Geroch | first=R. P. | title=Singularities in Closed Universes | journal=Physical Review Letters | volume=17 | issue=8 | date=1966-08-22 | issn=0031-9007 | doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.17.445 | pages=445–447}}
• {{cite journal | last=Geroch | first=Robert P. | title=Topology in General Relativity | journal=Journal of Mathematical Physics | volume=8 | issue=4 | date=1967-04-01 | issn=0022-2488 | doi=10.1063/1.1705276 | pages=782–786}}
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• {{cite journal | last=Geroch | first=Robert | title=Multipole Moments. I. Flat Space | journal=Journal of Mathematical Physics | volume=11 | issue=6 | date=1970-06-01 | issn=0022-2488 | doi=10.1063/1.1665348 | pages=1955–1961}}
• {{cite journal | last=Geroch | first=Robert | title=Domain of Dependence | journal=Journal of Mathematical Physics | volume=11 | issue=2 | date=1970-02-01 | issn=0022-2488 | doi=10.1063/1.1665157 | pages=437–449}}
• Geroch, R.P. (1971) "Space-time structure from a global viewpoint," Rend. Scu. Int. Fis. Enrico Fermi 47: 71-103(1971); in B.K.Sachs, ed., General Relativity and Cosmology (New York, Academic Press, 1971).
• {{cite journal | last=Geroch | first=Robert | title=A Method for Generating Solutions of Einstein's Equations | journal=Journal of Mathematical Physics | volume=12 | issue=6 | date=1971-06-01 | issn=0022-2488 | doi=10.1063/1.1665681 | pages=918–924}}
• {{cite journal | last=Geroch | first=Robert | title=A Method for Generating New Solutions of Einstein's Equation. II | journal=Journal of Mathematical Physics | volume=13 | issue=3 | date=1972-03-01 | issn=0022-2488 | doi=10.1063/1.1665990 | pages=394–404}}
• {{cite journal | last=Geroch | first=Robert | title=Einstein algebras | journal=Communications in Mathematical Physics | volume=26 | issue=4 | date=1972 | issn=0010-3616 | doi=10.1007/BF01645521 | pages=271–275}}
• {{cite journal |last1=Geroch|first1=R. P.|last2=Kronheimer|first2=E. H.|last3=Penrose|first3=R.| title=Ideal points in space-time | journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences | volume=327 | issue=1571 | date=1972-04-25 | issn=0080-4630 | doi=10.1098/rspa.1972.0062 | pages=545–567}}
• {{cite journal | last=Ashtekar | first=A | last2=Geroch | first2=R | title=Quantum theory of gravitation | journal=Reports on Progress in Physics | volume=37 | issue=10 | date=1974-10-01 | issn=0034-4885 | doi=10.1088/0034-4885/37/10/001 | pages=1211–1256}}

• {{cite book | author = R. Geroch | title = General Relativity from A to B | publisher = University of Chicago Press | year = 1981 | isbn = 0-226-28863-3 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/generalrelativit00gero }}
• {{cite book | author = R. Geroch | title = Mathematical Physics (Lectures in Physics)| publisher = University of Chicago Press | year=1985 | isbn=0-226-28862-5}}
• {{cite book | author = R. Geroch | title = Perspectives in computation| publisher = University of Chicago Press | year=2009 | isbn=978-0-226-28855-0}}
• {{cite book | author = R. Geroch | title = Geometrical Quantum Mechanics: 1974 Lecture Notes (Lecture Notes Series) (Volume 3)

| publisher = Minkowski Institute Press; 1 edition | year = 2013| isbn = 978-1927763049}}

• [http://home.uchicago.edu/~geroch Course Notes, Problem Sets, and Short Topics], for Lecture courses at the University of Chicago, primarily in the 1970s.
• Suggestions For Giving Talks, Notes on giving scientific talks, 1973. Available at: arXiv:gr-qc/9703019

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• Geroch energy
• Geroch group
• Geroch's splitting theorem
• GHP formalism

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20160919160839/http://physics.uchicago.edu:80/research/areas/general_relativity.html Faculty page at the University of Chicago (2016-09-19 version via Internet Archive)]
• [https://inspirehep.net/author/profile/R.P.Geroch.1 Robert Geroch research articles] cited by INSPIRE-HEP
• [https://arxiv.org/find/gr-qc/1/au:+geroch/0/1/0/all/0/1 Robert Geroch research articles] cited by arXiv

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