String Theory and Fundamental Interactions

Gabriele Veneziano and Theoretical Physics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Maurizio Gasperini, Jnan Maharana (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

XVIII, 974 Seiten

2016
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-662-50149-8 (ISBN)

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Opening with an overview of the pioneering work of Prof. Gabriele Venziano on string theory and nonperturbative QCD, this volume examines the impact of this and similar early work. The book honors Prof. Veneziano on his retirement from CERN.

This book has been prepared to celebrate the 65th birthday of Gabriele Veneziano and his retirement from CERN in September 2007. This reti- ment certainly will not mark the end of his extraordinary scienti?c career (in particular, he will remain on the permanent sta? of the Coll` ege de France in Paris), but we believe that this important step deserves a special celebration, and an appropriate recognition of his monumental contribution to physics. Our initial idea of preparing a volume of Selected papers of Professor Gabriele Veneziano, possibly with some added commentary, was dismissed when we realized that this format of book, very popular in former times, has become redundant today because of the full "digitalization" of all important physical journals, and their availability online in the electronic archives. We have thus preferred an alternative (and unconventional, but probably more e?ective) form of celebrating Gabriele's birthday: a collection of new papers written by his main collaborators and friends on the various aspects of th- retical physics that have been the object of his research work, during his long and fruitful career.

Gabriele Veneziano: A Concise Scientific Biography and an Interview.- An Unpublished Draft by Gabriele Veneziano (1973): "Non-local Field Theory Suggested by Dual Models".- Dual Resonance Models and String Theory.- The Birth of the Veneziano Model and String Theory.- The Birth of String Theory.- The Beginning of String Theory: A Historical Sketch.- The Little Story of an Algebra.- Perturbative QCD.- Parton Densities: A Personal Retrospective.- Infrared-sensitive Physics in QCD and in Electroweak Theory.- From QCD Lagrangian to Monte Carlo Simulation.- Fracture Functions.- Non-perturbative QCD.- Coherence and Incoherence in QCD Jets Dynamics (QCD Jets and Branching Processes).- The U(1)A Anomaly and QCD Phenomenology.- Planar Equivalence 2006.- Supersymmetric Guage Theories.- Instantons and Supersymmetry.- The Magnetic Monopoles Seventy-five Years Later.- String dualities and symmetries.- Novel Symmetries of String Theory.- Threshold Effects Beyond the Standard Model.- Dualities in String Cosmology.- Spontaneous Breaking of Space-Time Symmetries.- String/Quantum Gravity, Black Holes and Entropy.- The Information Paradox.- Cosmological Entropy Bounds.- Extremal Black Holes in Supergravity.- Expectation Values and Vacuum Currents of Quantum Fields.- String Cosmology.- Dilaton Cosmology and Phenomenology.- Relic Gravitons and String Pre-big-bang Cosmology.- Magnetic Fields, Strings and Cosmology.- Cosmological Singularities and a Conjectured Gravity/Coset Correspondence.- Brane Inflation: String Theory Viewed from the Cosmos.

Erscheinungsdatum	27.06.2016
Reihe/Serie	Lecture Notes in Physics
Zusatzinfo	XVIII, 974 p.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1496 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geophysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Hochenergiephysik / Teilchenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Quantenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Thermodynamik
Schlagworte	CERN • Cosmology • Gabriele Veneziano • Gravity • non-pertrubative QCD • quantum field theory • String Theory • theoretical physics
ISBN-10	3-662-50149-X / 366250149X
ISBN-13	978-3-662-50149-8 / 9783662501498
Zustand	Neuware