Quantum Mechanics of Fundamental Systems: The Quest for Beauty and Simplicity (eBook)

Claudio Bunster Festschrift

Marc Henneaux, Jorge Zanelli (Herausgeber)

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2009 | 2009
VI, 310 Seiten
Springer New York (Verlag)
978-0-387-87499-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This article is dedicated to Claudio Bunster on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It is a great honor to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to him, who in my opinion has been the greatest national physicist ever, for his wise guidance and intrepid support through the years. As a Chilean, I can further tell that Claudio's contributions have been well far beyond theoretical physics, helping our country to be ready to face future challenges through science. Gravity in diverse dimensions is a subject in which Claudio has done major c- tributions, encouraging in many ways the following work, that is being made along different fronts in collaboration with my colleagues Diego Correa, Gustavo Dotti, Julio Oliva and David Tempo. Thepursuitforwormholesolutions,whicharehandlesinthespacetimetopology, it is as old as General Relativity and it has appeared in theoretical physics within different subjects, ranging from the attempt of describing physics as pure geometry, as in the Einstein-Rosen bridge model of a particle [1], to the concept of 'charge withoutcharge'[2],aswell asindifferentissuesconcerningthe Euclideanapproach to quantum gravity (see, e.g., [3]). More recently, the systematic study of this kind of objects was pushed forward by the works of Morris, Thorne and Yurtsever [4,5].

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This article is dedicated to Claudio Bunster on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It is a great honor to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to him, who in my opinion has been the greatest national physicist ever, for his wise guidance and intrepid support through the years. As a Chilean, I can further tell that Claudio's contributions have been well far beyond theoretical physics, helping our country to be ready to face future challenges through science. Gravity in diverse dimensions is a subject in which Claudio has done major c- tributions, encouraging in many ways the following work, that is being made along different fronts in collaboration with my colleagues Diego Correa, Gustavo Dotti, Julio Oliva and David Tempo. Thepursuitforwormholesolutions,whicharehandlesinthespacetimetopology, it is as old as General Relativity and it has appeared in theoretical physics within different subjects, ranging from the attempt of describing physics as pure geometry, as in the Einstein-Rosen bridge model of a particle [1], to the concept of "e;charge withoutcharge"e;[2],aswell asindifferentissuesconcerningthe Euclideanapproach to quantum gravity (see, e.g., [3]). More recently, the systematic study of this kind of objects was pushed forward by the works of Morris, Thorne and Yurtsever [4,5].

Inhalt

Contents 5
OPENING REMARKS 7
Greetings 8
Opening Lecture 16
CONTRIBUTED PAPERS 19
On the Symmetries of Classical String Theory 20
Eddington–Born–Infeld Action and the Dark Side of General Relativity 30
Light-Cone Field Theory, MaximalSupersymmetric Theories and E7(7) in Light-Cone Superspace 36
Strongly Hyperbolic Extensions of the ADM Hamiltonian 73
Black Hole Entropy and the Problem of Universality 93
Sources for Chern–Simons Theories 108
The Emergence of Fermions and the E11 Content 125
Why Does the Universe Inflate? 147
Kac–Moody Algebras and the Structure of Cosmological Singularities: A New Light on the Belinskii– Khalatnikov– Lifshitz Analysis 154
Black Holes with a Conformally Coupled Scalar Field 165
Quantum Mechanics on Some Supermanifolds 178
John Wheeler’s Quest for Beauty and Simplicity 190
Magnetic Monopoles in Electromagnetism and Gravity 194
The Census Taker’s Hat 210
Static Wormholes in Vacuum and Gravity in Diverse Dimensions 263
CLOSING 282
Claudio Bunster: A Personal Recollection 283
Profile of Claudio Bunster 288
Index 296

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.4.2009
• Zusatzinfo: VI, 310 p. 10 illus.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Hochenergiephysik / Teilchenphysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Relativitätstheorie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Black hole dynamics • Claudio Bunster • Claudio Teitelboim • EFE • General relativity • Gravity • Quantum Gravity • quantum mechanics • Relativity
• ISBN-10: 0-387-87499-2 / 0387874992
• ISBN-13: 978-0-387-87499-9 / 9780387874999