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Gravitation and Cosmology: From the Hubble Radius to the Planck Scale

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Gravitation and Cosmology: From the Hubble Radius to the Planck Scale

Gravitation and Cosmology: From the Hubble Radius to the Planck Scale: Proceedings of a Symposium in Honour of the 80th Birthday of Jean-Pierre Vigier by Richard L. Amoroso, Geoffrey Hunter, Menas Kafatos, Jean-Pierre Vigier
English | PDF | 2002 | 556 Pages | ISBN : 1402008856 | 18.8 MB

Jean-Pierre Vigier continually labeled one of les heretiques de la science, l’eternel resistant et le patriarche is yet a pillar of modern physics and mathematics, with one leg firmly planted in theory and the other in empiricism spanning a career of nearly 60 years with a publication vitae quickly approaching 400! He wrote of his mentor Louis de Broglie “Great physicists fight great battles”, which perhaps applies even more so to 1 Jean-Pierre Vigier himself.

Cosmology, Quantum Vacuum and Zeta Functions In Honor of Emilio Elizalde

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Cosmology, Quantum Vacuum and Zeta Functions In Honor of Emilio Elizalde

Cosmology, Quantum Vacuum and Zeta Functions: In Honor of Emilio Elizalde by Sergey D. Odintsov, Diego Sáez-Gómez, Sebastian Xambó-Descamps
English | PDF (True) | 2011 | 379 Pages | ISBN : 3642197590 | 7.95 MB

Some major developments of physics in the last three decades are addressed by highly qualified specialists in different specific fields. They include renormalization problems in QFT, vacuum energy fluctuations and the Casimir effect in different configurations, and a wealth of applications. A number of closely related issues are also considered. The cosmological applications of these theories play a crucial role and are at the very heart of the book; in particular, the possibility to explain in a unified way the whole history of the evolution of the Universe: from primordial inflation to the present day accelerated expansion. Further, a description of the mathematical background underlying many of the physical theories considered above is provided. This includes the uses of zeta functions in physics, as in the regularization problems in QFT already mentioned, specifically in curved space-time, and in Casimir problems as.

Data Analysis in Cosmology

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Data Analysis in Cosmology

Data Analysis in Cosmology by Vicent J. Martinez, Enn Saar, Enrique Martinez Gonzales, Maria Jesus Pons-Borderia
English | PDF (True) | 2009 | 636 Pages | ISBN : 3540239723 | 17.15 MB

The amount of cosmological data has dramatically increased in the past decades due to an unprecedented development of telescopes, detectors and satellites. Efficiently handling and analysing new data of the order of terabytes per day requires not only computer power to be processed but also the development of sophisticated algorithms and pipelines.
Aiming at students and researchers the lecture notes in this volume explain in pedagogical manner the best techniques used to extract information from cosmological data, as well as reliable methods that should help us improve our view of the universe.

Gravitation and Modern Cosmology: The Cosmological Constants Problem

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Gravitation and Modern Cosmology: The Cosmological Constants Problem

Gravitation and Modern Cosmology: The Cosmological Constants Problem by Antonino Zichichi, Venzo Sabbata, Norma Sánchez
English | PDF | 1991 | 232 Pages | ISBN : 0306440547 | 18.67 MB

Peter Gabriel Bergmann started his work on general relativity in 1936 when he moved from Prague to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Bergmann collaborated with Einstein in an attempt to provide a geometrical unified field theory of gravitation and electromagnetism. Within this program they wrote two articles together: A. Einstein and P. G. Bergmann, Ann. Math. 39, 685 (1938) ; and A. Einstein, V. Bargmann and P. G. Bergmann, Th. von Karman Anniversary Volume 212 (1941).

Confluence of Cosmology, Massive Neutrinos, Elementary Particles, and Gravitation

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Confluence of Cosmology, Massive Neutrinos, Elementary Particles, and Gravitation

Confluence of Cosmology, Massive Neutrinos, Elementary Particles, and Gravitation by Behram N. Kursunoglu, Stephan L. Mintz, Arnold Perlmutter
English | PDF | 2002 | 249 Pages | ISBN : 0306462087 | 4.84 MB

Just before the preliminary program of Orbis Scientiae 1998 went to press the news in physics was suddenly dominated by the discovery that neutrinos are, after all, massive particles. This was predicted by some physicists including Dr. Behram Kusunoglu, who had apaper published on this subject in 1976 in the Physical Review. Massive neutrinos do not necessarily simplify the physics of elementary particles but they do give elementary particle physics a new direction. If the dark matter content of the universe turns out to consist of neutrinos, the fact that they are massive should make an impact on cosmology.

Cosmology in Scalar-Tensor Gravity

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Cosmology in Scalar-Tensor Gravity

Cosmology in Scalar-Tensor Gravity by Valerio Faraoni
English | PDF | 2004 | 281 Pages | ISBN : 1402019882 | 56 MB

Cosmology in Scalar-Tensor Gravity covers all aspects of cosmology in scalar-tensor theories of gravity. Considerable progress has been made in this exciting area of physics and this book is the first to provide a critical overview of the research. Among the topics treated are:

Statistical Geometry and Applications to Microphysics and Cosmology

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Statistical Geometry and Applications to Microphysics and Cosmology

Statistical Geometry and Applications to Microphysics and Cosmology by Sisir Roy
English | PDF | 1998 | 262 Pages | ISBN : 0792349075 | 20.7 MB

Recent results from high-energy scattering and theoretical developments of string theory require a change in our understanding of the basic structure of space-time. This book is about the advancement of ideas on the stochastic nature of space-time from the 1930s onward. In particular, the author promotes the concept of space as a set of hazy lumps, first introduced by Karl Menger, and constructs a novel framework for statistical behaviour at the microlevel. The various chapters address topics such as space-time fluctuation and random potential, non-local fields, and the origin of stochasticity. Implications in astro-particle physics and cosmology are also explored.

Dynamical Systems and Cosmology

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Dynamical Systems and Cosmology

Dynamical Systems and Cosmology by A. A. Coley
English | PDF | 2003 | 203 Pages | ISBN : 1402014031 | 18 MB

Dynamical systems theory is especially well-suited for determining the possible asymptotic states (at both early and late times) of cosmological models, particularly when the governing equations are a finite system of autonomous ordinary differential equations.

Fundamentals of Cosmology

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Fundamentals of Cosmology

Fundamentals of Cosmology by James Rich
English | PDF (True) | 2001 | 311 Pages | ISBN : 3642074618 | 28.16 MB

This is a textbook intended for students and researchers who wish to under­ stand the physics of standard "big bang" cosmology and how it is used to interpret the most recent observations. It is based on courses given over the last seven years to beginning graduate students at the University of Paris and to advanced undergraduates at l'Ecole Poly technique. Since the great major­ ity of these students did not intend to become professional cosmologists, I have emphasized subjects that should be of general interest. Progress in observations over the last ten years has been truly astounding and a new textbook might be justified simply to report on recent break­ throughs. The traditional successes of modern cosmology are well-known. Among these are the dynamical understanding of the universal expansion, the prediction of the cosmic microwave background radiation, and the calculation of the abundances of the light elements. To these we can add new observa­ tions that suggest that we are beginning the era of "precision cosmology.

Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics

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Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics

Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics by Lars Bergström , Ariel Goobar
English | PDF(True) | 2004 | 375 Pages | ISBN : 3540329242 | 4.5 MB

Beginning with some basic facts about the observable universe the authors consider in successive chapters the complete range of topics that make up a degree course in cosmology and particle astrophysics. The outstanding feature of this book is that it is self-contained, in that no specialised knowledge is required on the part of the reader, apart from basic undergraduate mathematics and physics.

The Early Universe: Facts and Fiction

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The Early Universe: Facts and Fiction

The Early Universe: Facts and Fiction by Gerhard Börner
English | PDF | 2003 | 598 Pages | ISBN : 3540441972 | 51.4 MB

This fourth edition of Börner's "The Early Universe" is practically a new book, not just an updated version. In particular, to meet the wishes of many readers, it is now organized so as to make it more useful as a textbook. Problem sections are also added. In the center are the connections between particle physics and cosmology: the standard model, some basic implications of quantum field theory, and the questions of structure formation.

Black Holes, Gravitational Radiation and the Universe

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Black Holes, Gravitational Radiation and the Universe

Black Holes, Gravitational Radiation and the Universe: Essays in Honor of C.V. Vishveshwara by Bala R. Iyer, Biplab Bhawal
English | PDF | 1999 | 581 Pages | ISBN : 0792353080 | 57.2 MB

Our esteemed colleague C. V. Vishveshwara, popularly known as Vishu, turned sixty on 6th March 1998. His colleagues and well wishers felt that it would be appropriate to celebrate the occasion by bringing out a volume in his honour. Those of us who have had the good fortune to know Vishu, know that he is unique, in a class by himself. Having been given the privilege to be the volume's editors, we felt that we should attempt something different in this endeavour. Vishu is one of the well known relativists from India whose pioneer­ ing contributions to the studies of black holes is universally recognised.

A Short Journey from Quarks to the Universe

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A Short Journey from Quarks to the Universe

A Short Journey from Quarks to the Universe by Eleftherios N. Economou
English | PDF(True) | 2011 | 143 Pages | ISBN : 3642200885 | 3.1 MB

This book takes the reader for a short journey over the structures of matter showing that their main properties can be obtained even at a quantitative level with a minimum background knowledge. The latter, besides some high school physics and mathematics, consists of the three cornerstones of science presented in chapters 1 to 3, namely the atomic idea, the wave-particle duality, and the minimization of energy as the condition for equilibrium.

Gauge Theory and the Early Universe

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Gauge Theory and the Early Universe

Gauge Theory and the Early Universe by P. Galeotti, David N. Schramm
English | PDF | 1988 | 383 Pages | ISBN : 9027728054 | 44.6 MB

closer in recent years, and new ideas and developments in one field are strictly connected with the new ideas and developments in the other field. Roughly speaking, many different subdisciplines of physics. seem to converge in cosmology, the study of the early evolution of the universe. The range of parameters (dimensions, temperatures, densities, etc ••• ) to be taken into account in cosmology is so vast that one is forced to use theories or experimental data of wide ranging origin.

The Early Universe: Facts and Fiction, Third Corrected and Enlarged Edition

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The Early Universe: Facts and Fiction, Third Corrected and Enlarged Edition

The Early Universe: Facts and Fiction, Third Corrected and Enlarged Edition by Gerhard Börner
English | PDF | 1993 | 486 Pages | ISBN : 3540567291 | 40.8 MB

In this corrected and enlarged edition of Börner's well respected textbook, you will find an up-to-date account of the interplay between particle physics and astrophysics upon which modern cosmology is founded. The author describes some of the theories which have been developed to model the fundamental interaction of elementary particles in the extremely high temperatures of the early universe, taking care to distinguish facts and well- established results from hypotheses and speculations.