Gravitation And Cosmology - Proceedings Of The Pacific Conference
Will be published approx. on 10. December 1998
Book
Hardback
348 pages
978-981-02-3698-4 (ISBN)
Description
This text presents the proceedings from the Pacific conference, concerning gravitation and cosmology. Topics include: quantum mechanics of Riemannian geometry; the statistical mechanics of horizons and black hole thermodynamics; and unified cosmology and dilatonic dark matter.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-981-02-3698-4 (9789810236984)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Quantum mechanics of Riemannian geometry; the statistical mechanics of horizons and black hole thermodynamics; the origin of black hole entropy in string theory; unified cosmology and dilatonic dark matter; fundamental cosmological parameters and large scale structures of the universe; an overview of the abstract boundary; a simple proof of global existence for a restricted class of relativistic dissipative fluids; can a new gravity theory supplant galatic dark matter?; consistent interacting spin-2 fields and nonlinear gravity; the moduli space of local homogeneous 3-geometries; dynamics of monopoles and space-time structure; classical dirac observables - the emergence of rest-frame particle and field theories; quantization of scalar field in the presence of imaginary frequency modes; ASTROD mission concept and measurement of the temporal variation in the gravitational constant. (Part contents).