Cosmology and gravitation : spin, torsion, rotation, and supergravity
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Cosmology and gravitation : spin, torsion, rotation, and supergravity
(NATO advanced study institutes series, ser. B . Physics ; v. 58)
Plenum Press, c1980
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"Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division."
"Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Cosmology and Gravitation: Spin, Torsion, Rotation, and Supergravity, held at the Ettore Majorana International Center for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy, May 6-18, 1979." -- t.p. verso
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Table of Contents
I: Theories with Torsion.- Generalities on Geometric Theories of Gravitation.- Four Lectures on Poincaré Gauge Field Theory.- The Macroscopic Limit of the Poincaré Gauge Field Theory of Gravitation.- QuasiClassical Limit of the Dirac Equation and the Equivalence Principle in the Riemann-Cartan Geometry.- Contracted Bianchi Identities and Conservation Laws in Poincaré Gauge Theories of Gravity.- The Gauge Symmetries of Gravitation.- The Motion of Test-Particles in Non-Riemannian Space-Time.- Torsion and Strong Gravity in The Realm of Elementary Particles and Cosmological Physics.- III: Supersymmetries, Twistors and Other Symmetry Groups.- The Fading World Point.- Superalgebras, Supergroups, and Geometric Gauging.- Four Lectures at the 1979 Erice School on Spin, Torsion, Rotation, and Supergravity.- Self Dual Fields.- An Introduction to Complex Manifolds.- A Brief Outline of Twistor Theory.- III: Experimental Relativity and Other Topics.- Experimental Gravitation with Measurements Made from Within a Planetary System.- Tests of General Relativity at the Quantum Level.- The Mass-Angular Momentum-Diagram of Astronomical Objects.- Bimetric General Relativity Theory.- Covariance and Quantum Physics-Need for a New Foundation of Quantum Theory?.- Relativistic Equations of Motion of “Spin Particles”.- Angular Momentum of Isolated Systems in General Relativity.- Isometries and General Solutions of Non-Linear Equations.- On the Visual Geometry of Spinors and Twistors.- Gravitation Photoproduction in Static Electromagnetic Fields and Some Astrophysical Applications.- Invariant Deduction of the Gravitational Equations from the Principle of Hamilton.- On a Generalization of the Notion of Reimann Curvature and Spaces with Torsion.- Comments on the Paper by Elie Cartan: Sur uneGeneralisation de la Notion de Courbure de Riemann et les Espaces a Torsion.
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