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Chakraborty, Sumanta |
Classical and Quantum Aspects of Gravity in Relation to the Emergent Paradigm |
I10321 |
2017 |
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Hess, Peter O |
Pseudo-Complex General Relativity |
I10319 |
2016 |
eBook |
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Mielke, Eckehard W |
Geometrodynamics of Gauge Fields |
I10297 |
2017 |
eBook |
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| 14 |
Crowther, Karen |
Effective Spacetime |
I10281 |
2016 |
eBook |
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Saller, Heinrich |
Operational Symmetries |
I10249 |
2017 |
eBook |
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Schramm, Steven |
Searching for Dark Matter with the ATLAS Detector |
I10238 |
2017 |
eBook |
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Franklin, Allan |
The Rise and Fall of the Fifth Force |
I10212 |
2016 |
eBook |
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Wuppuluri, Shyam |
Space, Time and the Limits of Human Understanding |
I10204 |
2017 |
eBook |
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Nahin, Paul J |
Time Machine Tales |
I10155 |
2017 |
eBook |
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Bambi, Cosimo |
Astrophysics of Black Holes |
I10152 |
2016 |
eBook |
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| Title | Classical and Quantum Aspects of Gravity in Relation to the Emergent Paradigm |
| Author(s) | Chakraborty, Sumanta |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2017. |
| Description | XXI, 263 p. 26 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This thesis explores the connection between gravity and thermodynamics and provides a unification scheme that opens up new directions of exploration. Further elaborating on the Hawking effect and the possibility of singularity avoidance, the author not only discusses the information loss paradox at a broader level but also provides a possible solution to it. As the final frontier, it describes some novel effects arising from the microscopic structure of spacetime. Taken as a whole, the thesis addresses three major research areas in gravitational physics: it starts with classical gravity, proceeds to the black hole information loss paradox, and closes with Planck scale physics. ??The thesis is written in a lucid and pedagogical style, with an introduction accessible to researchers from other branches of physics and a discuss ion presenting open questions and future directions, which will benefit and hopefully inspire next-generation researchers |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319637334 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. COSMOLOGY
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. GRAVITATION
6. THERMODYNAMICS
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| Title | Pseudo-Complex General Relativity |
| Author(s) | Hess, Peter O;Sch??fer, Mirko;Greiner, Walter |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2016. |
| Description | XV, 250 p. 33 illus., 11 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This volume presents an pseudo-complex extension of General Relativity which addresses these issues and presents proposals for experimental examinations in strong fields near a large mass.??General Relativity is a beautiful and well tested theory of gravitation. Nevertheless, it implies conceptual problems like the creation of singularities (Black Holes) as a result of the collapse of large masses, or the appearance of event horizons which exclude parts of the space-time from the observation of external observers. The mathematical and geometrical foundations of this extension are displayed in detail, and applications including orbits and accretion disks around large central masses, neutron stars or cosmological models are introduced. Calculations both for classical and extended applications are often executed in the form of problems with extensive solutions, which makes this volume also a valuable resource for any student of General Relativity |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319250618 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. COSMOLOGY
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. GRAVITATION
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| Title | Geometrodynamics of Gauge Fields : On the Geometry of Yang-Mills and Gravitational Gauge Theories |
| Author(s) | Mielke, Eckehard W |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2017. |
| Description | XVII, 373 p. 18 illus., 8 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This monograph aims to provide a unified, geometrical foundation of gauge theories of elementary particle physics. The underlying geometrical structure is unfolded in a coordinate-free manner via the modern mathematical notions of fibre bundles and exterior forms. Topics such as the dynamics of Yang-Mills theories, instanton solutions and topological invariants are included. By transferring these concepts to local space-time symmetries, generalizations of Einstein's theory of gravity arise in a Riemann-Cartan space with curvature and torsion. It provides the framework in which the (broken) Poincar?? gauge theory, the Rainich geometrization of the Einstein-Maxwell system, and higher-dimensional, non-abelian Kaluza-Klein theories are developed. Since the discovery of the Higgs boson, concepts of spontaneous symmetry breaking in gravity have come again into focus, and, in this revised edition, these will be exposed in geometric terms. Quantizing gravity remains an open issue: formulating it as a de Sitter type gauge theory in the spirit of Yang-Mills, some new progress in its topological form is presented. After symmetry breaking, Einstein???s standard general relativity with cosmological constant emerges as a classical background. The geometrical structure of BRST quantization with non-propagating topological ghosts is developed in some detail |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319297347 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. Elementary particles (Physics)
5. Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory
6. GRAVITATION
7. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
8. QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
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| Title | Effective Spacetime : Understanding Emergence in Effective Field Theory and Quantum Gravity |
| Author(s) | Crowther, Karen |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2016. |
| Description | IX, 205 p. 21 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book??discusses??the notion that??quantum gravity may represent the "breakdown" of spacetime at extremely high energy scales. If spacetime does not exist at the fundamental level, then it??has to??be considered??"emergent", in other words an effective structure, valid at low energy scales. The author develops??a conception of emergence appropriate to effective theories in physics, and shows how it applies (or could apply) in various approaches to quantum gravity, including condensed matter approaches, discrete approaches, and loop quantum gravity |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319395081 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. COSMOLOGY
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. GRAVITATION
6. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
7. PHYSICS
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| Title | Operational Symmetries : Basic Operations in Physics |
| Author(s) | Saller, Heinrich |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2017. |
| Description | XI, 574 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book describes the endeavour to relate the particle spectrum with representations of operational electroweak spacetime, in analogy to the atomic spectrum as characterizing representations of hyperbolic space. The spectrum of hyperbolic position space explains the properties of the nonrelativistic atoms; the spectrum of electroweak spacetime is hoped to explain those of the basic interactions and elementary particles. In this book, the theory of operational symmetries is developed from the numbers, from Plato???s and Kepler???s symmetries over the simple Lie groups to their applications in nonrelativistic, special relativistic and general relativistic quantum theories with the atomic spectrum for hyperbolic position and, in first attempts, the particle spectrum for electroweak spacetime. The standard model of elementary particles and interactions is characterized by a symmetry group. In general, as initiated by Weyl and stressed by Heisenberg, quantum theory can be built as a theory of operation groups and their unitary representations. In such a framework, time, position and spacetime is modeled by equivalence classes of symmetry groups. For a unification on this road, the quest is not for a final theory with a basic equation for basic particles, but for the basic operation group and its representations. |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319586649 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. GRAVITATION
5. LIE GROUPS
6. Mathematical Methods in Physics
7. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
8. PHYSICS
9. QUANTUM PHYSICS
10. TOPOLOGICAL GROUPS
11. Topological Groups, Lie Groups
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| Title | Searching for Dark Matter with the ATLAS Detector |
| Author(s) | Schramm, Steven |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2017. |
| Description | XXIII, 324 p. 145 illus., 135 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This thesis describes the search for Dark Matter at the LHC in the mono-jet plus missing transverse momentum final state, using the full dataset recorded in 2012 by the ATLAS Experiment. It is the first time that the number of jets is not explicitly restricted to one or two, thus increasing the sensitivity to new signals. Instead, a balance between the most energetic jet and the missing transverse momentum is required, thus selecting mono-jet-like final states. Collider searches for Dark Matter have typically used signal models employing effective field theories (EFTs), even when comparing to results from direct and indirect detection experiments, where the difference in energy scale renders many such comparisons invalid. The thesis features the first robust and comprehensive treatment of the validity of EFTs in collider searches, and provides a means by which the different classifications of Dark Matter experiments can be compared on a sound and fair basis |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319444536 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. COSMOLOGY
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. Elementary particles (Physics)
6. Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory
7. GRAVITATION
8. QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
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| I10238 |
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| Title | The Rise and Fall of the Fifth Force : Discovery, Pursuit, and Justification in Modern Physics |
| Author(s) | Franklin, Allan;Fischbach, Ephraim |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2016. |
| Description | XII, 249 p. 93 illus., 4 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book provides the reader with a detailed and captivating account of the story where, for the first time, physicists ventured into proposing a new force of nature beyond the four known ones - the electromagnetic, weak and strong forces, and gravitation - based entirely on the reanalysis of existing experimental data. Back in 1986, Ephraim Fischbach, Sam Aronson, Carrick Talmadge and their collaborators proposed a modification of Newton???s Law of universal gravitation. Underlying this proposal were three tantalizing pieces of evidence: 1) an energy dependence of the CP (particle-antiparticle and reflection symmetry) parameters, 2) differences between the measurements of G, the universal gravitational constant, in laboratories and in mineshafts, and 3) a reanalysis of the E??tvos experiment, which had previously been used to show that the gravitational mass of an object and its inertia mass were equal to approximately one part in a billion. The reanalysis revealed that, contrary to Galileo???s position, the force of gravity was in fact very slightly different for different substances. The resulting Fifth Force hypothesis included this composition dependence and also added a small distance dependence to the inverse-square gravitational force. Over the next four years numerous experiments were performed to test the hypothesis. By 1990 there was overwhelming evidence that the Fifth Force, as initially proposed, did not exist. This book discusses how the Fifth Force hypothesis came to be proposed and how it went on to become a showcase of discovery, pursuit and justification in modern physics, prior to its demise. In this new and significantly expanded edition, the material from the first edition is complemented by two essays, one containing Fischbach???s personal reminiscences of the proposal, and a second on the ongoing history and impact of the Fifth Force hypothesis from 1990 to the present. < |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319284125 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. GRAVITATION
7. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
8. Measurement Science and Instrumentation
9. Measurement??????
10. Observations, Astronomical
11. Philosophy and science
12. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
13. PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS
14. PHYSICS
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| Title | Space, Time and the Limits of Human Understanding |
| Author(s) | Wuppuluri, Shyam;Ghirardi, Giancarlo |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2017. |
| Description | XXIII, 530 p. 51 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | In this compendium of essays, some of the world???s leading thinkers discuss their conceptions of space and time, as viewed through the lens of their own discipline. With an epilogue on the limits of human understanding, this volume hosts contributions from six or more diverse fields. It presumes only rudimentary background knowledge on the part of the reader. Time and again, through the prism of intellect, humans have tried to diffract reality into various distinct, yet seamless, atomic, yet holistic, independent, yet interrelated disciplines and have attempted to study it contextually. Philosophers debate the paradoxes, or engage in meditations, dialogues and reflections on the content and nature of space and time. Physicists, too, have been trying to mold space and time to fit their notions concerning micro- and macro-worlds. Mathematicians focus on the abstract aspects of space, time and measurement. While cognitive scientists ponder over the perceptual and experiential facets of our consciousness of space and time, computer scientists theoretically and practically try to optimize the space-time complexities in storing and retrieving data/information. The list is never-ending. Linguists, logicians, artists, evolutionary biologists, geographers etc., all are trying to weave a web of understanding around the same duo. However, our endeavour into a world of such endless imagination is restrained by intellectual dilemmas such as: Can humans comprehend everything? Are there any limits? Can finite thought fathom infinity? We have sought far and wide among the best minds to furnish articles that provide an overview of the above topics. We hope that, through this journey, a symphony of patterns and tapestry of intuitions will emerge, providing the reader with insights into the questions: What is Space? What is Time? Chapter [15] of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319444185 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. COSMOLOGY
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. EPISTEMOLOGY
6. GRAVITATION
7. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
8. METAPHYSICS
9. PHYSICS
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| I10204 |
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| Title | Time Machine Tales : The Science Fiction Adventures and Philosophical Puzzles of Time Travel |
| Author(s) | Nahin, Paul J |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2017. |
| Description | XLIX, 383 p. 53 illus., 3 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book contains a broad overview of time travel in science fiction, along with a detailed examination of the philosophical implications of time travel. The emphasis of this book is now on the philosophical and on science fiction, rather than on physics, as in the author's earlier books on the subject. In that spirit there are, for example, no Tech Notes filled with algebra, integrals, and differential equations, as there are in the first and second editions of TIME MACHINES. Writing about time travel is, today, a respectable business. It hasn???t always been so. After all, time travel, prima facie, appears to violate a fundamental law of nature; every effect has a cause, with the cause occurring before the effect. Time travel to the past, however, seems to allow, indeed to demand, backwards causation, with an effect (the time traveler emerging into the past as he exits from his time machine) occurring before its cause (the time traveler pushing the start button on his machine???s control panel to start his trip backward through time). Time Machine Tales includes new discussions of the advances by physicists and philosophers that have appeared since the publication of TIME MACHINES in 1999, examples of which are the chapters on time travel paradoxes. Those chapters have been brought up-to-date with the latest philosophical thinking on the paradoxes. Paul Nahin is THE authority on the intricate physics of time travel, paradoxes and all. He makes the field as clear as it can be. ??? Gregory Benford, author of Timescape |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319488646 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. GRAVITATION
5. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
6. PHILOSOPHY
7. Philosophy and science
8. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
9. PHYSICS
10. Popular Science in Philosophy
11. Popular Science in Physics
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| Title | Astrophysics of Black Holes : From Fundamental Aspects to Latest Developments |
| Author(s) | Bambi, Cosimo |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2016. |
| Description | XI, 207 p. 35 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book discusses the state of the art of the basic theoretical and observational topics related to black hole astrophysics. It covers all the main topics in this wide field, from the theory of accretion disks and formation mechanisms of jet and outflows, to their observed electromagnetic spectrum, and attempts to measure the spin of these objects. Black holes are one of the most fascinating predictions of general relativity and are currently a very hot topic in both physics and astrophysics. In the last five years there have been significant advances in our understanding of these systems, and in the next five years it should become possible to use them to test fundamental physics, in particular to predict the general relativity in the strong field regime. The book is both a reference work for researchers and a textbook for graduate students |
| ISBN,Price | 9783662528594 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTROPHYSICS
2. Astrophysics and Astroparticles
3. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. GRAVITATION
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