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Title

Recent developments in gravitation and mathematical physics : proceedings of the First Mexican School on Gravitation and Mathematical Physics : Guanajuato, Mexico, 12-16 December 1994 / editors, A. Macias.

Author

Mexican School on Gravitation and Mathematical Physics (1st : 1994 : Guanajuato, Mexico)

Publication

Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors

Macías, A. (Alfredo)

Description

xiii, 393 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Alternative Title

Proceedings of the First Mexican School on Gravitation and Mathematical Physics

Subjects

• Mathematical physics > Congresses
• Gravitation > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Dedication to Carlos Graef-Fernandez / A. Mondragon -- Computer Algebra and Applications in Relativity and Gravity / M. A. H. MacCallum -- Cosmological Models without Initial Singularities / J. M. M. Senovilla -- Quantum Cosmology Lectures / D. A. Page -- Introduction to Black Hole Microscopy / T. A. Jacobson -- Conceptual Developments Deriving from Eternal Inflation / Y. Ne'eman -- Riemann-Cartan Structure of the Spatial Yang-Mills Equations / E. W. Mielke, A. Macias and H. A. Morales-Tecotl -- Degeneracy of Resonances and Singularities of the Hypercomplex Energy Surfaces / A. Mondragon and E. Hernandez -- Exotic Smoothness Structures in Physics / C. H. Brans -- Nontrivial Fermion States in Supersymmetric Minisuperspace / A. Csordas and R. Graham -- Overview of Inhomogeneous Cosmological Models / A. Krasinski -- Spin 3/2 Fields Non-Minimal Coupling from Linearized Gravity / O. Obregon, V. M. Villanueva and J. A. Nieto --
• Spin Structures Dirac Fields and Lagrangians / M. Rosenbaum -- The Starobinsky Model in a Jordan Brans Dicke Theory / S. del Campo -- Linear, Affine and World Spinors in 3 + 1 Dimensions / Y. Ne'eman -- Atom Beam Interferometry in Gravitational Fields / C. Lammerzahl -- Multidimensional Geometric Theories and Scalar Effects / A. P. Alvarez -- Geometric Phases and Translations / H. A. Morales-Tecotl, A. Macias and E. W. Mielke -- Clifford Algebras and Spin Bundles / M. A. Aguilar and M. Socolovsky -- Coupling of the Kaluza-Klein Induced Dilaton Field in the Dirac Equation / E. Hernandez, A. Macias and E. W. Mielke -- Classical Equivalence in the Einstein Frame / U. F. Wichoski and A. J. Accioly -- Gravitational and Non-Inertial Effects in Electromagnetic Fields / N. V. Mitskievich -- Superspace Supergravity / C. Ramirez -- Effective Weinberg-Salam Model from Higher Dimensions / A. Macias, A. Camacho, E. W. Mielke and T. Matos --
• The Question of Black Hole Hair in Einstein-Higgs Theory / D. Sudarsky -- On Topology Change in (2 + 1)-D Gravity with Non-Abelian Higgs Field / A. I. Nesterov -- The Fastest Possible Rate of Decay of Wave Functions / J. Cruz-Sampedro -- Colliding Waves with Noncollinear Polarization in Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton-Axion Theory / A. Garcia and N. Breton -- Cosmological Solutions that are Stable under Anisotropic Perturbations in Brans-Dicke Theory / P. Chauvet, H. N. Nunez-Yepez and J. L. Cervantes-Cota -- Influence of a Perfect Fluid on Scalar Field Cosmologies / L. P. Chimento and A. S. Jakubi -- Thermodynamics of Inhomogeneous Cosmological Models / H. Quevedo, D. Rosales and R. A. Sussman -- Decoherence Due to Massive Vector Fields with Global Symmetries / O. Bertolami and P. V. Moniz -- Mathematical Features of Several Cosmological Models / L. P. Chimento and A. S. Jakubi -- Graceful Exit with Viscosity / L. O. Pimentel and L. M. Diaz-Rivera --
• Exact Solutions in Inflationary Theories from Dilaton Gravity / T. Matos, M. Montesinos-Velazquez and G. Piccinelli -- How can Supersymmetry be used in a Simple Quantum Cosmological Model / P. V. Moniz -- Quantum Cosmology for a Quadratic Theory of Gravity / L. O. Pimentel and O. Obregon -- Large Scale Structure, Gravitational Waves and Gravitational Lenses / J. A. Frieman, D. D. Harari and G. C. Surpi -- Two-Scalar Field Cosmologies / L. P. Chimento -- Quantization of a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Model in N=1 Supergravity with Gauged Supermatter / A. D. Y. Cheng, P. D. D'Eath and P. R. L. V. Moniz -- Topological Dilatonic Supergravity / V. O. Rivelles -- Creation of Electrically Neutral Massless Particles in a Bertotti-Robinson Universe / V. M. Villalba -- New Perturbative Approach to Quantum Field Theory / V. Gupta.

ISBN

9810227558

OCLC

ocm35837995

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries