This festschrift was conceived in connection with the symposium "Topics on Quantum Gravity and Beyond," held in honor of Louis Witten. The majority of the essays deal with problems on the frontiers of quantum gravity and string theories. There are also articles on atomic, nuclear, and particle physics, to name a few.
Sample Chapter(s)
How Does the Classical World Emerge from the Wave Function? (390 KB)
Contents:
- How Does the Classical World Emerge from the Wave Function? (B S DeWitt)
- The Space-Time Approach to Quantum Mechanics (J B Hartle)
- What Can We Learn from the Study of Non-Perturbative Quantum General Relativity? (L Smolin)
- Physical Solutions of Semi-Classical General Relativistic Models with Quantum Corrections (L Parker)
- Lessons from D=3 Gravity Theories (S Deser)
- Two Dimensional String Theory and Black Holes (E Witten)
- Noncompact Symmetries from Dimensional Reduction (J H Schwarz)
- Problems of Naturalness: Some Lessons from String Theory (M Dine)
- Dilaton Gravity and WZW Models (C R Nappi)
- Localized Energy in General Relativity and the Implications for Gravitational Radiation (F I Cooperstock)
- Euclidean Maxwell–Einstein Theory (D Brill)
- Monopoles and Blackholes (K C Wali)
- and other papers
Readership: Astronomers and astrophysicists.
