Astrophysics

This monograph gives a comprehensive presentation of the SL(2,C) Gauge Theory of Gravitation along with some recent developments in the problem of Conservation Laws in General Relativity.

This is a most important review volume providing a summary of black hole physics in the last 25 years.

Inflation has revolutionized cosmology primarily because it has eliminated the dependence of cosmological modelling on initial conditions.

This volume comprises lectures delivered at the First Equatorial School of Relativistic Astrophysics.

This first volume of this two-volume set deals with the important recent discovery of the photomagneton of electromagnetic radiation, a discovery which is fundamental in quantum field theory and in quantum mechanics in matter.

This book presents methods of studying transonic flows applicable to various astrophysical circumstances.

This book addresses the subject of gravity theories in two and three spacetime dimensions.

This book commemorates the centenary of the birth of Georges David Birhoff, the father of the theory of Dynamical Systems.

'The book can be a good introduction to research in the area of black hole physics.

Detailed discussions on many of the recent advances in the many-body theory of atomic structure are presented by the leading experts around the world on their respective specialized approaches.

This volume is a collection of the scientific papers of Frederick Reines.

The book's principal aim is to clarify fundamental concepts, decipher mathematical structures used to model space-time and relativistic worlds, and to disclose their physical meaning.

This is a book that fills the gap between Newtonian gravitation and sophisticated, relativistic theories.

This concise monograph is intended for students and scientists specializing in contemporary field theory, gravitation theory and modern differential geometry.

The main topics covered by the book regard the new developments of the methods and computer architectures in the field of Data Analysis in Astronomy and Astrophysics.

This book describes in a non-technical language, one of the success stories of modern (twentieth-century) astronomy.

These lectures give an elementary introduction to the important recent developments of the applications of N=1 supergravity to the construction of unified models of elementary particle interactions.

Accretion disks in compact stellar systems containing white dwarfs, neutron stars or black holes are the principal laboratory for understanding the role of accretion disks in a wide variety of environments from proto-stars to quasars.

The Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics was created in 1965 by a group of LD Landau's pupils.

The interaction of electromagnetic waves with matter has always been a fascinating subject of study.

Time is considered as an independent entity which cannot be reduced to the concept of matter, space or field.

This book is a collection of comprehensive reviews on astrophysics at the highest energies.

This book gives an exposition of both the old and new results of spin and torsion effects on gravitational interactions with implications for particle physics, cosmology etc.

Gravitational waves were predicted by Einstein over 75 years ago, but have not yet been seen.

This volume of important papers by one the world's leading astrophysicists provides a sweeping survey of the incisive and exciting applications of nuclear and particle physics to a wide range of problems in astrophysics and cosmology.

This monograph explains and analyzes the principles of a quantum-geometric framework for the unification of general relativity and quantum theory.

The series of Oskar Klein Memorial Lectures is a must-read for those keenly involved or simply interested in exploring the many fascinating aspects of Physics.

This book describes the subject of electrodynamics at classical as well as quantum level, developed as an interaction at a distance.

The study of Comet Halley in 1986 was a tremendous success for cometary science.

This volume comprises original and review articles on the frontier problems of the gravitation theory, theoretical and mathematical physics.

This book sets up a discrete universe with minimum and maximum dimensions.

Ultrahigh energy cosmic rays carry information about their sources and the intervening medium apart from providing a beam of particles for studying certain features of high energy interactions currently inaccessible at man-made accelerators.

Over the last three decades, a spate of solar wind observations have been made with sophisticated ground-based and space-borne instruments.

This book deals with special relativity theory and its application to cosmology.

Neutrinos are the central thread in the study of many aspects of particle physics and astrophysics.

This is the first book to deal with Titan, one of the most mysterious bodies in the solar system.

Most of the knowledge of ancient Greek science survived through Byzantine codices.

Einstein endorsed the view of Kaluza that gravity could be combined with electromagnetism if the dimensionality of the world is extended from 4 to 5.

This book gives an account of the creative work of theorists at the largest Soviet secret laboratory, now the Russian Federal Nuclear Center at Arzamas-16, and concrete situations where some famous results on the essentials of theoretical physics emerged, so to speak, in the intermissions of the quest for bombs.

Since the 1980s the cross-disciplinary, multidimensional field of links between cosmology and particle physics has been widely recognised by theorists, studying cosmology, particle and nuclear physics, gravity, as well as by astrophysicists, astronomers, space physicists, experimental particle and nuclear physicists, mathematicians and engineers.

This volume, marking the 20th Anniversary of the International School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics, provides a wide-ranging overview of modern astrophysics - from the infra-red to X-rays and y-rays, from neutrinos to galactic cosmic rays, and from shock wave acceleration to cosmology.

This unique volume is a collection of papers on various problems in astrophysics and cosmology - from planetary motion to the arrow of time - that are closely linked by the common spirit, technique and methodology of chaos.

This book provides an up-to-date understanding of the progress and current problems of the interplay of nonlocality in the classical theories of gravitation and quantum theory.

This book introduces needed theoretical instruments and offers an up-to-date discussion on fundamental physics as well as the experimental tools used and developed for the construction and exploitation of gravitational wave antennae (resonant bars, ground-based and space interferometric detectors).

The problem of time is a central feature of quantum cosmology: differing from ordinary quantum mechanics, in cosmology there is nothing "e;outside"e; the system which plays the role of clock, and this makes difficult the obtention of a consistent quantization.

This book is an introduction to pulsars, a key area in high energy astrophysics with continuing potential for fundamental discoveries.

This book presents reviews and new findings in the field of the very early universe, where the interests of particle theorists and astrophysicists meet.

This is the proceedings of an international conference on the evolution of matter in the Universe, with emphasis on the following topics: big bang nucleosynthesis, cosmic ray nucleosynthesis, stellar nucleosynthesis, galactic chemical and dynamical evolution, and evolution with redshift and cosmic chemical evolution in general.