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Lecture Notes: Matthias Blau

The following Lecture Notes are available (files are gzip-ped postscript files file.ps.gz unless indicated otherwise):

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

Lecture Notes on General Relativity: [ps.gz file] (692 K) (also available as a [pdf file] (1.4 M)) (237 pages, latest minor update November 2009). Further additions and updates to these lecture notes are in preparation.
Lecture Notes on the Path Integral Approach to Quantum Mechanics: [ps.gz file] (also available as a [pdf file]) (54 pages, 2006). Introductory and elementary lecture notes for part of a Master's course on Advanced Quantum Mechanics.
Lecture Notes on Plane Waves and Penrose Limits: [ps.gz file] (also available as a [pdf file]) (87 pages, 2004). Based on lectures originally given at the 2004 Saalburg/Wolfersdorf Summer School and in various other places.

Some Older Lecture Notes:

Symplectic Geometry and Geometric Quantization (47 pages, 1992)
Supergravity Solitons (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.