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This chapter presents basic concepts of relativity, both special and general, aimed at readers who do not have previous knowledge of the subject. Of course, there is a plethora of literature on the subject. Good references for main results are [57], [40] and [55]. Since having a clear concept of the stress-energy tensor appearing in Einstein’s equation of general relativity requires certain elementary concepts in classical fluid mechanics, the chapter begins with a brief synopsis of this part of mechanics.
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Girbau, J., Bruna, L. (2010). Introduction to Relativity. In: Stability by Linearization of Einstein’s Field Equation. Progress in Mathematical Physics, vol 58. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0304-1_2
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