Quantum Mechanics of Fundamental Systems: The Quest for Beauty and Simplicity Claudio Bunster Festschrift

In life and work, Claudio Bunster (formerly Teitelboim) prefers extreme challenges. Bunster, a physicist who contemplates brain-warping theories of space and time, returned to his native Chile from the United States precisely when most intellectuals would have stayed clear— during the middle of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Henneaux, Marc (Editor), Zanelli, Jorge (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 2009, 2009
Edition:1st ed. 2009
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • OPENING REMARKS
  • Recorded in Santa Barbara
  • Opening
  • CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
  • On the Symmetries of Classical String Theory
  • Eddington-Born-Infeld Action and the Dark Side of General Relativity
  • Maximal Supersymmetric Theories and E7(7) in Light-Cone Superspace
  • Strongly Hyperbolic Extensions of the ADM Hamiltonian
  • Black Hole Entropy and the Problem of Universality
  • Sources for Chern-Simons theories
  • The Emergence of Fermions and The E Content
  • Why did the Universe Inflate?
  • Kac-Moody algebras and the structure of cosmological singularities: a new light on the Belinskii-Khalatnikov-Lifshitz analysis
  • Black holes with a conformally coupled scalar field
  • Quantum Mechanics on some Supermanifolds
  • John Wheeler's Quest for Beauty and Simplicity
  • Magnetic Monopoles in Electromagnetism and Gravity
  • The Census Taker's Hat
  • Static wormholes in vacuum and gravity in diverse dimensions
  • CLOSING
  • Claudio Bunster: A personal recollection
  • Profile of Claudio Bunster