Antonino Zichichi

Gravitation and Modern Cosmology: The Cosmological Constants Problem - Ettore Majorana International Science Series Antonino Zichichi 1991 edition

Marc Notes: Volume in honor of Peter Gabriel Bergmann's 75th birthday.; Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: My Life (P. G. Bergmann). Effective Action Model for the Cosmological Constant Revisited (S. L. Adler). Could Final States of Stellar Evolution Proceed towards Naked Singularities? (N. Dallaporta). Torsion, Quantum Effects and the Problem of Cosmological Constant (V. de Sabbata et al.). Variations of Constants and Exact Solutions in Multidimensional Gravity (S. B. Fadeev et al.). Cosmic Strings and Large Scale Structure of the University (F. Li Zhi). Null Surface Canonical Formalism (J. N. Goldberg et al.). Qualitative Cosmology (I. M. Khalatnikov). Third Quantization of Gravity and the Cosmological Constant Problem (G. Lavrelashvili et al.). Cosmological Constant, Quantum Cosmology and Anthropic Principle (A. Linde). On the Gravitational Field of an Arbitrary Axisymmetric Mass with a Magnetic Dipole Moment (I. D. Novikov et al.). Twistors as Spin 3/2 Charges (R. Penrose). Experimental Search of Gravitational Waves (G. Pizzella). A Simple Model of the Universe without Singularities (N. Rosen et al.). String Theory and the Quantization of Gravity (N. Sanchez). Projective Unified Field Theory in Context with the Cosmological Term and the Variability of the Gravitational Constant (E. Schmutzer). The Introduction of the Cosmological COnstant (E. L. Schucking). 3 additional articles. Index."Publisher Marketing: 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). The search for such a theory was intense in the ten years following the birth of general relativity. In recent years, some of the geometrical ideas proposed in these publications have proved essential in contemporary attempts towards the unification of all interactions including gravity, Kaluza-Klein type theories and supergravity theories. In 1942, Bergmann published the book "Introduction to the Theory of Relativity" which included a foreword by Albert Einstein. This book is a reference for the subject, either as a textbook for classroom use or for individual study. A second corrected and enlarged edition of the book was published in 1976. Einstein said in his foreword to the first edition: "Bergmann's book seems to me to satisfy a definite need. . . Much effort has gone into making this book logically and pedagogically satisfactory and Bergmann has spent many hours with me which were devoted to this end.

Contributor Bio:  Zichichi, Antonino Zichichi-Univ of Bologna, Italy, Natl Inst of Nuclear Physics, Italy