Relativity, Particle Physics and Cosmology

by Allen, Roland E.

• ISBN13: 9789810237943
• ISBN10: 9810237944
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Summary

This volume outlines the status of fundamental physics at the threshold of the 21st century. Some of the world's leading theorists and experimentalists discuss ongoing research on the following topics: M Theory, Superstring Theory, Supersymmetry and Supergravity, Quantum Gravity, Dark Matter in the Universe, Gravitational Radiation, Proton Decay, Higgs Physics, Cosmology, Bose-Einstein Condensation.

Table of Contents

Introduction
D = 11 Supergravity Revisited	p. 1
ADM Revisited for Binary Neutron Stars	p. 13
The Search for Dark Matter Particles and Vacuum Energy in the Universe	p. 23
Phenomenology and Cosmology of Weakly Coupled String Theory	p. 35
Super Yang-Mills on the Noncommutative Torus	p. 53
The Quantum and Gravity: The Wheeler-DeWitt Equation	p. 70
Anti-de Sitter Space, Branes, Singletons, Superconformal Field Theories, and All That	p. 93
Supergravity Unification	p. 131
Higgs Physics and Supersymmetry	p. 144
The Stability of Matter: An Experimentalist's Outlook	p. 158
Does the Critical Temperature Concept Make Sense for Bose Einstein Condensation in Mesoscopic Systems?	p. 181
Variational Pair Theory of Many-Boson Systems: Origins and Application to Trapped Atomic BEC	p. 190
Causal Propagation of Constraints and the Canonical Form of General Relativity	p. 202
Black Holes, Newtonian Scattering, and Conformal Field Theory	p. 211
Charm Changing Neutral Currents and Supersymmetry	p. 221
Search for Supersymmetry at CDF	p. 230
Killing Spinors on Spheres, AdS and Hyperbolic Spaces	p. 242
Properties of Gauged Sigma Models	p. 255
Scales and Cosmological Applications of M Theory	p. 279
Charged Current Six Fermion Processes at NLC: Higgs Production in the Intermediate Mass Range	p. 298
4-String Junction and its Network	p. 311
Dynamical Confinement of Quarks and Leptons in Eight Flat Dimensions	p. 323
Pseudodifferential Operators, Covariant Quantization, The Inescapable Van Vleck-Morette Determinant, and the R/6 Controversy	p. 329
Deceleration Parameter and Age of the Universe in Instanton Cosmology	p. 343
Cryptons: A String Form of Decaying Superheavy Dark Matter, as a Source of the Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays	p. 359
Program of the Richard Arnowitt Fest	p. 370
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