Recent Developments In Gravitation And Cosmology: 3rd Mexican Meeting on Mathematical and Experimental Physics, Mexico Cith, Mexico 10-14 September, 2007

by Macias, Alfredo; Lammerzahl, Claus; Camacho, Abel

• ISBN13: 9780735404960
• ISBN10: 0735404968
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-14
• Publisher: Amer Inst of Physics

Summary

The Third Mexican Meeting on Mathematical and Experimental Physics brought together scientists from many different fields. The Meeting was divided into three Symposia: (i) Physical Chemistry, (ii) Biological Physics, (iii) Gravitation and Cosmology. This proceedings presents the papers of the Gravitation and Cosmology Symposium. The main goal of the Gravitation and Cosmology Symposium was to present the perspectives of scientists in the fields of cosmology and gravitation regarding their current work as well as the anticipated development of their research fields in the near future.

Table of Contents

Biography: Leopoldo Garcia-Colin Scherer
Biography: Victor Marquez
On the Incompatibility between General Relativity and Quantum Theory	p. 3
Noncommutative Geometries and Gravity	p. 12
Non-Commutative Models in Gravity	p. 30
Noncommutative Solitons	p. 37
Loop Quantization of Spherically Symmetric Midi-Superspaces: The Interior Problem	p. 52
On a Continuum Limit for Loop Quantum Cosmology	p. 64
Energy Extraction from Black Holes	p. 75
Rotating Black Holes in Higher Dimensions	p. 94
Geodesic Equation and Theta-Divisor	p. 116
BRST and the Pure Spinor Formalism	p. 134
Quantum Stress Tensor Fluctuations and Their Physical Effects	p. 145
Heat in General Relativity: A Controversy in Irreversible Thermodynamics	p. 160
The Geometry of Thermodynamics	p. 165
Bose-Einstein Condensation in Gravitational Field	p. 173
Small-Scale Structure of Spacetime: Bounds and Conjectures	p. 181
Perspectives of the Use of Statistical Mechanics Methods in Quantum Gravity Phenomenology	p. 202
The Scalar Sector in the Myers-Pospelov Model	p. 214
Phase Transitions in a Relativistic Bosonic Gas Induced by the Breakdown of Lorentz Symmetry	p. 224
Experimental Efforts in Space for Fundamental Physics Tests	p. 235
Planetary and Lunar Ephemerides: Testing Alternate Gravitational Theories	p. 254
Pioneer Anomaly: Evaluating Newly Recovered Data	p. 264
Analysis of an Extended Pioneer 10 and 11 Data Set	p. 284
Multiphoton and Simultaneous Conjugate Ramsey-Horde Atom Interferometers	p. 291
Scalar-Tensor Cosmological Simulations	p. 302
Evanescent Modes and Tunnelling Instantaneously Act at a Distance	p. 310
Author Index	p. 317
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