Recent Developments in General Relativity, Genoa 2000

✍ Scribed by C. Rubano (auth.), R. Cianci, R. Collina, M. Francaviglia, P. Fré (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Mailand
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 453
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A survey of the most recent developments in general relativity and in the theory of the unification of Fundamental Interactions is presented in this book. The theoretical results, the cosmological and astrophysical aspects, the experimental and observational programs are shown in 26 general talks by renowned scientists active in this field.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXI
In Memory of Ruggiero de Ritis July 1, 1943 — September 8, 2000....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Radiative Spacetimes....Pages 11-23
Instantons and Scattering....Pages 25-46
The Early Universe, the Present Universe....Pages 47-61
2D Dynamical Triangulations and the Weil-Petersson Measure....Pages 63-74
Nöther Conserved Quantities and Entropy in General Relativity....Pages 75-91
Spinors, Supergravity and the Signature of Space-Time....Pages 93-110
VIRGO: An Interferometric Detector of Gravitational Waves....Pages 111-119
Oscillation and Instabilities of Relativistic Stars....Pages 121-139
Active Galactic Nuclei and the Properties of Supermassive Black Holes....Pages 141-150
Huygens’ Principle and MAPLE’s NPspinor Package....Pages 151-163
Hamiltonian Structure of 2+1 Dimensional Gravity....Pages 165-177
Covariant Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Symmetries....Pages 179-201
Anti-de Sitter Quantum Field Theory and the AdS-CFT Correspondence....Pages 203-216
Geodetic Contributions to Gravitational Experiments in Space....Pages 217-233
The r-modes Oscillations and Instability: Surprises from Magnetized Neutron Stars....Pages 235-248
Strong Field Gravity and Quasi-Periodic Oscillations from Low-Mass X-ray Binaries....Pages 249-260
What Have We learned about Gamma Ray Bursts from Afterglows?....Pages 261-275
Gravitational Waves and the Death-Spiral of Compact Binaries....Pages 277-287
Gravity in Anti-de-Sitter Space and Quantum Field Theory....Pages 289-299
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Black Hole Formation in Supernovae: Prospects of Unveiling Fallback Emission....Pages 301-315
Advanced Readout Configurations for the Gravitational Wave Detector AURIGA....Pages 317-331
Front Matter....Pages 333-333
Connections in Distributional Bundles and Field Theories....Pages 335-340
The Spectrum of Endstates of Spherical Gravitational Collapse....Pages 341-346
Quantum Zeno Effect and the Detection of Gravitomagnetism....Pages 347-351
Sagnac, Gclock Effect and Gravitomagnetism....Pages 353-360
Radiation from an Electric Charge....Pages 361-367
Trajectories for Relativistic Particles in an Electromagnetic Field....Pages 369-373
Front Matter....Pages 375-375
A Determination of any Physical Characteristics of Magnetic Monopole in Basis of Metrics of Curved Space-Time....Pages 377-381
Gravitational Waves from Colored Spinning Cosmic Strings....Pages 383-388
“Multiple Bending of Light Ray” Can Create Many Images for One Galaxy: In Our Dynamic Universe — A Computer Simulation....Pages 389-393
Front Matter....Pages 395-395
Recent Improvements on the EXPLORER Gravitational Wave Antenna....Pages 397-401
NAUTILUS Recent Results....Pages 403-408
The Low Frequency Facility, R&D Experiment of the Virgo Project....Pages 409-415
The Newton’s Gravitational Law....Pages 417-421
Measurement of Gravitational Interaction on mm Scale....Pages 423-426
Front Matter....Pages 427-427
Constraint Supersymmetry Breaking and Non-Perturbative Effects in String Theory....Pages 429-433
T-Dualization and Symmetry Breaking....Pages 435-439
A Theory of Quantum Gravity from First Principles....Pages 441-449
Spin Models, TQFTs and Their Hierarchical Structure....Pages 451-458
Front Matter....Pages 427-427
Quantum Closed Timelike Curves in General Relativity....Pages 459-463

✦ Subjects

Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory;Astrophysics and Astroparticles