Research Catalog

Title

String gravity and physics at the Planck energy scale / edited by N. Sánchez and A. Zichichi.

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1996], ©1996.

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Additional Authors

• NATO Advanced Study Institute on String Gravity and Physics at the Planck Energy Scale (1995 : Erice, Italy) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96059885
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79142766
• Sanchez, N. (Norma), 1952-
• Zichichi, Antonino.

Description

viii, 544 pages : illustrations (some color); 25 cm.

Series Statement

NATO ASI series. Series C, Mathematical and physical sciences ; vol. 476

Uniform Title

NATO ASI series. Series C, Mathematical and physical sciences ; no. 476.

Subjects

• Cosmology > Congresses
• Nuclear astrophysics > Congresses
• Quantum gravity > Congresses
• String models > Congresses

Note

• "Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division."
• "Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on String Gravity and Physics at the Planck Energy Scale, Erice, Italy, 8-19,September, 1995"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• The String Equation and Solitons / S. P. Novikov -- Lectures on String Theory in Curved Spacetimes / H. J. De Vega and N. Sanchez -- Strings and Multi-Strings in Black Hole and Cosmological Spacetimes / A. L. Larsen and N. Sanchez -- Renormalization Constants from String Theory / P. Di Vecchia, et al -- Closed Superstrings in Magnetic Field: Instabilities and Supersymmetry Breaking / A. A. Tseytlin -- Solution of the SL(2,R) String in Curved Spacetime / I. Bars -- Internal Physics of Black Holes: Recent Developments / W. Israel -- Black Hole Entropy and Physics at Planckian Scales / V. Frolov -- Black Hole Condensation and Duality in String Theory / A. Strominger -- Correlation Dynamics of Quantum Fields and Black Hole Information Paradox / B. L. Hu -- Topology and Time Reversal / A. Chamblin and G. W. Gibbons -- Polymer Geometry at Planck Scale and Quantum Einstein Equations / A. Ashtekar -- Modular Cosmology / T. Banks --
• Status of String Cosmology: Basic Concepts and Main Consequences / G. Veneziano -- Status of String Cosmology: Phenomenological Aspects / M. Gasperini -- Predictions from Quantum Cosmology / A. Vilenkin -- Statistics of the Microwave Background Anisotropies caused by Cosmological Perturbations of Quantum-Mechanical Origin / L. P. Grishchuk -- Cosmological Inflation and the Nature of Time / D. S. Salopek -- Aspects of Quantum Cosmology / D. N. Page -- New Aspects of Reheating / D. Boyanovsky, et al -- The Electroweak Phase Transition: A Status Report / L. G. Yaffe -- Aspects of Cosmic-Ray Astrophysics in the Galaxy and Beyond / M. M. Shapiro -- Quantum Field Theory for Dynamical Systems with Curved Phase Space / E. S. Fradkin.

ISBN

0792339908 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

96010837

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries