The Cosmology of Extra Dimensions and Varying Fundamental Constants

1. Front Matter

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2. The Cosmology of Extra Dimensions and Varying Fundamental Constants

   • Carlos J. A. P. Martins

   Pages 1-6

3. String Theory, Cosmology and Varying Constants

   • Thibault Damour

   Pages 7-18

4. Cosmological Parameters from Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies: Status and Prospects

   • Alessandro Melchiorri, Carolina J. Ödman

   Pages 19-30

5. Cosmology in a Brane-Universe

   • David Langlois

   Pages 31-41

6. Brane World Effective Action at Low Energies

   • Sugumi Kanno, Jiro Soda

   Pages 43-48

7. Varying Fundamental Constants from a String-Inspired Brane World Model

   • Cristiano Germani, Carlos F. Sopuerta

   Pages 49-54

8. Cosmology ‘without’ Constants

   • João Magueijo

   Pages 55-65

9. Variable Speed of Light Theories

   • J. W. Moffat

   Pages 67-71

10. Varying Fundamental Constants: A Dynamical Systems Approach

    • Marek Biesiada

    Pages 73-78

11. A Resolution of the Cosmological Singularity in String Theory

    • L. Cornalba, M. S. Costa, C. Kounnas

    Pages 79-86

12. The Global Structure of the Colliding Bubble Braneworld Universe

    • José J. Blanco-Pillado, Martin Bucher

    Pages 87-92

13. The Value of Ω0 in a Colliding Bubble Universe

    • Carla Carvalho

    Pages 93-98

14. Inhomogeneous Dark Radiation Dynamics on a de Sitter Brane

    • Rui Neves, Cenalo Vaz

    Pages 99-104

15. The Confrontation Between General Relativity and Experiment

    • Clifford M. Will

    Pages 105-114

16. The Implications of Experimental Uncertainties in Newton’s Constant on the Standard Evolution of the Sun

    • Ilídio Lopes

    Pages 115-120

17. Varying Fine-Structure Constant and the Cosmological Constant Problem

    • Yasunori Fujii

    Pages 121-126

18. Does the Fine Structure Constant Vary? A Third Quasar Absorption Sample Consistent with Varying α

    • John K. Webb, Michael T. Murphy, Victor V. Flambaum, Stephen J. Curran

    Pages 127-137

19. Does the Fine Structure Constant Vary? A Detailed Investigation into Systematic Effects

    • M. T. Murphy, J. K. Webb, V. V. Flambaum, S. J. Curran

    Pages 139-144

20. Does the Proton-to-Electron Mass Ratio µ = m _p / m _e Vary in the Course of Cosmological Evolution?

    • A. Ivanchik, P. Petitjean, E. Rodriguez, D. Varshalovich

    Pages 145-150

The workshop on The Cosmology of Extra Dimensions and Varying Fundamental Constants, which was part of JENAM 2002, was held at the Physics Department of the University of Porto (FCUP) from the 3rd to the 5th of September 2002. It was regularly attended by about 110 participants, of which 65 were officially registered in the VFC workshop, while the others came from the rest of the JENAM workshops. There were also a few science correspondents from the national and international press. During the 3 days of the scientific programme, 8 Invited Reviews and 30 Oral Communications were presented. The speakers came from 11 different European countries, and also from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Japan and the U.S.A. There were also speakers from six Portuguese research institutions, and nine of the speak­ ers were Ph.D. students. The contributions are presented in these proceedings in chronological order. The workshop brought together string theorists, particle physicists, theoretical and observational cosmologists, relativists and observational astrophysicists. It was generally agreed that this inter-disciplinarity was the greatest strength of the work­ shop, since it provided people coming into this very recent topic from the various different backgrounds with an opportunity to understand each other's language and thereby gain a more solid understanding of the overall picture.

• Cosmology
• Gravity
• Relativity
• Universe
• general relativity
• quasar

• Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP), Centre of Mathematical Science (CMS), University of Cambridge, UK

  Carlos J. A. P. Martins

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