Gravity

The revised and updated 2nd edition of this established textbook provides a self-contained introduction to the general theory of relativity, describing not only the physical principles and applications of the theory, but also the mathematics needed, in particular the calculus of differential forms.

This book is written for theoretical and mathematical physicists and mat- maticians interested in recent developments in complex general relativity and their application to classical and quantum gravity.

Unlike most traditional introductory textbooks on relativity and cosmology that answer questions like "e;Does accelerated expansion pull our bodies apart?

Satellite Gravimetry and the Solid Earth: Mathematical Foundations presents the theories behind satellite gravimetry data and their connections to solid Earth.

Explores how quantum coherence can be consistently incorporated into Einstein''s theory of gravitation, for researchers in the foundations of physics.

Relativity has much to offer for a well-rounded education.

This thesis is devoted to the systematic study of non-local theories that respect Lorentz invariance and are devoid of new, unphysical degrees of freedom.

In the late 20th and beginning 21st century high-precision astronomy, positioning and metrology strongly rely on general relativity.

The International Conference on the History of Original Ideas and Basic Discoveries, held at the "e;Ettore Majorana"e; Centre for Scientific Culture in Erice, Sicily, July 27-August 4, 1994, brought together sixty of the leading scientists including many Nobel Laureates in high energy physics, principal contributors in other fields of physics such as high Tc superconductivity, particle accelerators and detector instrumentation, and thirty-six talented younger physicists selected from candidates throughout the world.

The reader will find in this volume the Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy between August 6 and August 17, 1990 under the title "e;Predictability, Stability, and Chaos in N-Body Dynamical Systems"e;.

The book is based on the course on general relativity given regularly at the Physics Department of Novosibirsk University.

This book is dedicated to Einstein's personal and scientific relationships with Italy, which began as early as adolescence and continued over various stages of his life.

Currently under construction in the Andean Altiplano, Northern Chile, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) is the most ambitious astronomy facility under construction.

This thesis uses the tools of quantum information science to uncover fascinating new insights about the intersection of quantum theory and relativity.

A very attractive feature of the theory of general relativity is that it is a perfectexampleofa"e;falsi?

The reader will find in this volume the Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute held in Cortina d' Ampezzo, Italy, between July 25 and August 6, 1993, under the title From Newton to Chaos: Modem Techniques for Understanding and Coping With Chaos inN-Body Dynamical Systems.

This graduate-level primer presents a tutorial introduction to and overview of N = 2 supergravity theories - with 8 real supercharges and in 4, 5 and 6 dimensions.

This primer proposes a journey from Newton's dynamics to Einstein's relativity.

2 Homogeneous superconducting state 210 3 Superconducting phases with broken space symmetries 213 4 Flavor asymmetric quark condensates 219 5 Concluding remarks 221 Acknowledgments 222 References 223 Neutral Dense Quark Matter 225 Mei Huang and Igor Shovkovy 1 Introduction 225 2 Local charge neutrality: homogeneous phase 226 3 Global charge neutrality: mixed phase 234 4 Conclusion 238 References 238 Possibility of color magnetic superconductivity 241 Toshitaka Tatsumi, Tomoyuki Maruyama, and Eiji Nakano 1 Introduction 241 2 What is ferromagnetism in quark matter?

Parting the Cosmic Veil describes our gradual awareness of a vast, previously concealed Universe.

Despite the success of general relativity in explaining classical gravitational phenomena, several problems at the interface between gravitation and high energy physics still remain open.

Einstein's general theory of relativity -- currently our best theory of gravity -- is important not only to specialists, but to a much wider group of physicists.

An overview of semi-classical gravity theory and stochastic gravity as theories of quantum gravity in curved space-time.

This book explains and develops the Dirac equation in the context of general relativistic quantum mechanics in a range of spacetime dimensions.

Documenting the different formulations of general relativity, this book reveals valuable insight into the nature of the gravitational force.

This volume reviews conceptual conflicts at the foundations of physics now and in the past century.

This book seeks to present a new way of thinking about the interaction of gravitational fields with quantum systems.

The book presents seven fundamental concepts in spacetime physics mostly by following Hermann Minkowski's revolutionary ideas summarized in his 1908 lecture "e;Space and Time.

Beginning on the 18th of March, 1905,at approximately eight week intervals, the noted German physics journal Annalen der Physik received three hand-written manuscripts from a relatively unknown patent examiner in Bern.

This book reviews various modified gravity models, including those with modifications in the pure gravitational sector; those involving extra fields, that is, scalar-tensor and vector-tensor gravity theories; gravity models with Lorentz symmetry breaking; and nonlocal gravity models.

This book offers an updated comprehensive review of the rapidly expanding field of GRMHD simulations.

Introduces the technology and reviews the experimental issues; a valuable reference for graduate students and researchers in physics and astrophysics.

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The Olympia conference Frontiers of Fundamental Physics was a gathering of about hundred scientists who carryon their research in conceptually important areas of physical science (they do "e;fundamental physics"e;).

Cosmology in Scalar-Tensor Gravity covers all aspects of cosmology in scalar-tensor theories of gravity.

This textbook offers a readily comprehensible introduction to classical Newtonian gravitation, which is fundamental for an understanding of classical mechanics and is particularly relevant to Astrophysics.

Justbefore the preliminary programof Orbis Scientiae 1998 went to press the news in physics was suddenly dominated by the discovery that neutrinos are, after all, massive particles.

A detailed and comprehensive exploration of the foundations and fundamentals of effective field theories.

These lecture notes are intended for starting PhD students in theoretical physics who have a working knowledge of General Relativity.

A systematic and self-contained account, which adopts a geometric approach to study the solutions of Einstein''s theory of gravity.

The Hidden Hypotheses Behind the Big Bang It is quite unavoidable that many philosophical a priori assumptions lurk behind the debate between supporters of the Big Bang and the anti-BB camp.

Primordial black holes (PBHs) were proposed more than 50 years ago as black holes possibly formed across a vast mass range in the early universe.

The problem of quantum gravity is often viewed as the most pressing unresolved problem of modern physics: our theories of spacetime and matter, described respectively by general relativity (Einstein's theory of gravitation and spacetime) and quantum mechanics (our best theory of matter and the other forces of nature) resist unification.

General relativity is the modern theory of the gravitational ?