On Einstein’s Path

Essays in Honor of Engelbert Schucking

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

Friends and colleagues of Engelbert Schucking came together in a symposium on the 12th and 13th of December 1996 at New York University to celebrate and express to him their respect, admiration, and affection.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-10-17
Mått:155 x 235 x 2 mm
Vikt:820 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:517
Förlag:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN:9781461271376

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Innehållsförteckning

1 Jordan, Pauli, Politics, Brecht … and a Variable Gravitational Constant.- 2 Thomson Scattering in an Expanding Universe.- 3 Geometrical Formulation of Quantum Mechanics.- 4 General Covariance is Bose-Einstein Statistics.- 5 The Split and Propagation of Light Rays in Relativity.- 6 How to Define a Unique Vacuum in Cosmology.- 7 ElH Theory and Noether’s Theorem.- 8 The Static Cylinder in General Relativity.- 9 Gravity and the Tenacious Scalar Field.- 10 The Cavendish Experiment in General Relativity.- 11 Wave Maps in General Relativity.- 12 General Relativity and Experiment.- 13 Some Developments in Newtonian Cosmology.- 14 Deviation of Geodesics in FLRW Spacetime Geometries.- 15 Poincaré Pseudosymmetries in Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes.- 16 Taub Numbers and Asymptotic Invariants.- 17 Second-Class Constraints.- 18 On the Structure of the Energy-Momentum and the Spin Currents in Dirac’s Electron Theory.- 19 The Physical Reality of the Quantum Wave Function.- 20 The Ultimate Extension of the Bianchi Classification for Rotating Dust Models.- 21 On the Classification of the Real Four-Dimensional Lie Algebras.- 22 Spinning Universes in Newtonian Cosmology.- 23 Relativistic Gravitational Fields with Close Newtonian Analogs.- 24 Working with Engelbert.- 25 Some Remarks on Twistor Theory.- 26 Critique of the Wheeler-DeWitt Equation.- 27 A New Version of the Heavenly Equation.- 28 A Plain Man’s Guide to Bivectors, Biquaternions, and the Algebra and Geometry of Lorentz Transformations.- 29 Leon Lichtenstein’s Work on Rotating Fluids.- 30 Decaying Neutrinos and the Flattening of the Galactic Halo.- 31 The Kasner Condition and Inhomogeneous Perfect Fluid Cosmologies.- 32 Gravitational Screening.- 33 On the Interpretation of the Einstein—Cartan Formalism.- 34 OnComplex Structures in Physics.- 35 The Engelbert Experience: Pathways from the Past.- 36 Curriculum Vita.