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Lecture Notes: Matthias Blau

The following Lecture Notes are available (files are pdf-files unless indicated otherwise):

Lecture Notes on General Relativity: [newlecturesGR.pdf] (Warning: Size ca 5.7 MB, 900+ pages!) See the GR Lecture Notes Webpage for further information.

Some other Lecture notes that I still maintain (and may occasionally update):

Lecture Notes on the Path Integral Approach to Quantum Mechanics: [lecturesPI.pdf]) (58 pages, latest update February 2019). Introductory and elementary lecture notes for part of a Master course on Advanced Quantum Mechanics.
Lecture Notes on Plane Waves and Penrose Limits: [pdf file] (89 pages, latest update 2024). Based on lectures originally given at the 2004 Saalburg/Wolfersdorf Summer School and in various other places.

Some Older (Ancient ...) Lecture Notes (I no longer maintain since I don't even have the TeX-files anymore):

Symplectic Geometry and Geometric Quantization [pdf file] (47 pages, 1992)
Supergravity Solitons [pdf file] (54 pages, 2002). Lectures given at the Introductory School on String Theory (3 - 14 June 2002). Expanded version of the 1998 and 2000 lectures.

If you have any comments on these notes, complaints, corrections, or constructive criticism, or also if you just happen to find them useful, please let me know.