General Relativity and Gravitational Physics

Proceedings of the 10th Italian Conference

10th Italian Conference

, Bardonecchia, Torino, Italy

, 01 – 05 September 1992

https://doi.org/10.1142/2329 | May 1994

Pages: 692

Edited by:
M Cerdonio (University of Trento, Italy),
R D'Auria (Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy),
M Francaviglia (University of Turin, Italy), and
G Magnano (University of Turin, Italy)

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Contents:

WS Representation and Functional Integrals on Connections (L Accardi)
Gravitational Topological Charge and Gravibreather (V Belinsky)
Doppler Tracking Experiments (B Bertotti)
Towards an Ultracryogenic Bar Observatory for Gravitational Wave Bursts (M Cerdonio et al.)
The Theoretical Significance of Experimental Gravitation (I Ciufolini)
Target Space Duality and Gauge Couplings (R D'Auria & S Ferrara)
Exact Solutions in Inflationary Flat Cosmologies (R De Ritis et al.)
Reality and Promise of Resonant Bar Gravity Wave Detectors (W O Hamilton)
2+1 Quantum Gravity (T Regge)
A New Precision Test of the Decaying Neutrino Theory (D W Sciama)
and other papers

Readership: Astrophysicists and cosmologists.

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General Relativity & Gravitational Physics: 10th Italian Conference

Pages:1–694

https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814534475

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The Table of Contents for the book is as follows:

Foreword
Acknowledgments
Invited Lectures
- The Weyl-Schrödinger Representation on Curved Space and Functional Integrals on the Connections
- Mukai–Nahm Transform on K3 Surfaces
- Gravitational Topological Charge and Gravibreather
- Doppler Tracking of Interplanetary Spacecraft
- Reidemeister-Franz Torsion and Entropy Estimates for Riemannian Three-Manifolds
- Non-Commutative Differential Geometry on Quantum Groups: Applications to q-Gauge and q-Gravity Theories
- Early Debates on General Relativity in Italy
- Towards an Ultracryogenic Bar Observatory for Gravitational Wave Bursts
- Special Geometry, Fuchs–Picard Equations and w-Algebras
- Multiwavelength Observations of Black Hole Candidates
- The Theoretical Significance of Experimental Gravitation
- The Gravitational Wave Antenna NAUTILUS
- Mathematical Foundation of Target Space Duality and its Application to Gauge Couplings Unification
- Exact Solutions in Inflationary Flat Cosmologies
- Programs for Algebraic Computing in General Relativity: Some Examples
- The VIRGO Project: Improvements on the Mirror Suspension System
- Some Ideas on VIRGO Low Frequency Sensitivity Improvement by Cooling Mirror Suspension
- The Reality and Promise of Resonant Bar Gravity Wave Detectors
- The ULYSSES Gravitational Wave Experiment: Preliminary Results
- Can Classical Electrodynamics be Renormalized?
- Scientific Visualization for Research
- Relativistic Gravitational Collapse of Rotating Objects
- A Scheme for Galilei General Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
- Relativistic Radiation Hydrodynamics
- Continuous Operation of the "EXPLORER" Cryogenic Gravitational Wave Detector
- The Mean Field Approximation in Quantum Gravity
- New Developments in Open–String Theories
- 2+1 Quantum Gravity
- The C⁰/CO Ratio Problem - a New Precision Test of the Decaying Neutrino Theory
- Cosmic Background Radiation in the Infrared and Submillimetric Regions
- Field Redefinitions and Physical Variables in Nonlinear Metric Theories of Gravity
- Twistor-Like Formulation of Heterotic Strings
- 1992 Status of the Lageos III Gravitomagnetic Experiment
Contributed Papers
- WORKSHOP A: GENERAL RELATIVITY, CLASSICAL GRAVITY AND MATHEMATICAL METHODS
  - Algebraic Aspects of the Fourier Transform of Instantons on the Four-Torus
  - Supersymmetric-Time Evolution
  - Galilean Theories of Gravitation
  - The Geometry of Complex Space-Times with Torsion
  - On the Geometry of Symmetry Groups of the Yang–Baxter Equations
  - The Imprimitivity Theorem for a Class of Non-Locally Compact Groups
  - A Generalization of the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff Equations
  - On the Meaning of 2- and 4–Component Spinor Fields
- WORKSHOP B: RELATIVISTIC ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY
  - Building Large Scale Structure with Bubbles
  - Covariant Flux-Limited Diffusion Theory in Homogeneous Cosmologies
  - Tunnelling From Nothing and Induced Gravity
  - Violent Relaxation of Triaxial N–Body Rotating Systems
  - Hydrodynamical Computations of the Cosmological Quark–Hadron Transition
  - Inflation in a Causal Dissipative Bianchi Cosmology
- WORKSHOP C: EXPERIMENTAL AND OBSERVATIONAL GRAVITY
  - Result of a Preliminary Data Analysis in Coincidence between the LSU and Rome Gravitational Wave Antennas
  - Digital Control Limits in the Automatic Control of the Virgo Interferometric Antenna
  - Digital Alignment Control of the Virgo Interferometric Antenna Mirrors
  - First Room Temperature Results for the Gravitational Antenna Auriga
  - Development of a Back Action Evading Transducing Scheme for Cryogenic Gravitational Wave Antennas
  - The Extra Galactic Sources of Gravitational Waves Reachable with the Present Generation of Antennas
  - Preliminary Study of the Response of a Network of Gravitational-Wave Antennas
  - Present Status and Prospects of the Altair G. W. Antenna
- WORKSHOP D: SUPERGRAVITY AND QUANTUM GRAVITY
  - Twisted N=2 Supergravity as Topological Gravity
  - Heterotic Vacua Including Gravitational Instantons
  - Weyl Determinant and Gravitational Anomalies
  - Four-Dimensional Lattice Gravity and 12j–Symbols
  - Vacuum Correlations in Quantum Gravity
  - Kaluza–Klein Finite Temperature Theories with non Vanishing Chemical Potentials
POSTER SESSION
- On Black Holes in Brans–Dicke Theory
- The Dirac Equation in Maximally Symmetric Spaces
- Exact Wormhole Solutions with a Scalar Field
- On Drinfeld Twisting and Nonstandard Quantum Groups
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS