Topics in Mathematical Physics, General Relativity and Cosmology in Honor of Jerzy Plebanski

Author:   Maciej Przanowski ,  Merced Montesinos ,  Hugo N ,  Bogdan Mielnik
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Company
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9781299741218


Pages:   526
Publication Date:   01 January 2006
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Topics in Mathematical Physics, General Relativity and Cosmology in Honor of Jerzy Plebanski


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One of modern science's most famous and controversial figures, Jerzy Plebanski was an outstanding theoretical physicist and an author of many intriguing discoveries in general relativity and quantum theory. Known for his exceptional analytic talents, explosive character, inexhaustible energy, and bohemian nights with brandy, coffee, and enormous amounts of cigarettes, he was dedicated to both science and art, producing innumerable handwritten articles -- resembling monk's calligraphy -- as well as a collection of oil paintings.As a collaborator but also an antagonist of Leopold Infeld's (a coauthor of Albert Einstein's), Plebanski is recognized for designing the heavenly and hyper-heavenly equations, for introducing new variables to describe the gravitational field, for the exact solutions in Einstein's gravity and in quantum theory, for his classification of the tensor of matter, for some outstanding results in nonlinear electrodynamics, and for analyzing general relativity with continuous sources long before Chandrasekhar et al. A tribute to Plebański's contributions and the variety of his interests, this is a unique and wide-ranging collection of invited papers, covering gravity quantization, strings, branes, supersymmetry, ideas on the deformation quantization, and lesser known results on the continuous Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff problem.Contents: How Black Holes Grow (A Ashtekar) Generalized Symmetries for the sDiff(2) Toda Equation (D Finley & J K Mciver) Differential Equations and Cartan Connections (S Frittelli et al.) Conservation Laws, Constants of the Motion, and Hamiltonians (J Goldberg) Large N Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity (J Maldacena) Yang-Mills Type BRST and co-BRST Algebra for Teleparallelism (E W Mielke & A A Rincon Maggiolo) A Note on the Foundation of Relativistic Mechanics: Covariant Hamiltonian General Relativity (C Rovelli) Einstein's Intuition and the Post-Newtonian Approximation (J Stachel) Deformation Theory and Physics Model Building (D Sternheimer) and other papersReadership: Theoretical physicists, mathematicians and graduate students.

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Author:   Maciej Przanowski ,  Merced Montesinos ,  Hugo N ,  Bogdan Mielnik
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Company
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN:  

9781299741218


ISBN 10:   1299741215
Pages:   526
Publication Date:   01 January 2006
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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