Overview
- Wide-ranging but coherent collection addressing the manifold challenges in spacetime physics
- Authors include Carl Brans and other foremost experts
- With both reviews and new research, the volume is especially useful for graduate students
- Also of interest to historians of relativity theory
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Fundamental Theories of Physics (FTPH, volume 183)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Scalar-Tensor Theories (Brans–Dicke Theory)
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Mach’s Principle and Bell’s Inequality
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Exotic Smoothness and Space-Time Models
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About this book
In this book, leading theorists present new contributions and reviews addressing longstanding challenges and ongoing progress in spacetime physics.
In the anniversary year of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, developed 100 years ago, this collection reflects the subsequent and continuing fruitful development of spacetime theories. The volume is published in honour of Carl Brans on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Carl H. Brans, who also contributes personally, is a creative and independent researcher and one of the founders of the scalar-tensor theory, also known as Jordan-Brans-Dicke theory. In the present book, much space is devoted to scalar-tensor theories.
Since the beginning of the 1990s, Brans has worked on new models of spacetime, collectively known as exotic smoothness, a field largely established by him. In this Festschrift, one finds an outstanding and unique collection of articles about exotic smoothness. Also featured are Bell's inequality and Mach's principle.
Personal memories and historical aspects round off the collection.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
T. Asselmeyer-Maluga was born in 1970 and received his PhD from the Humboldt University Berlin in 1997. His research began with the topological investigation of the Fractional Quantum Hall effect using Berry's phase. Then during the course of his PhD, he analysed the topological properties of evolutionary algorithms. Inspired by Brans' work, he began the investigation of exotic smoothness around 1994.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: At the Frontier of Spacetime
Book Subtitle: Scalar-Tensor Theory, Bells Inequality, Machs Principle, Exotic Smoothness
Editors: Torsten Asselmeyer-Maluga
Series Title: Fundamental Theories of Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31299-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-31297-2Published: 09 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81008-9Published: 27 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31299-6Published: 28 April 2016
Series ISSN: 0168-1222
Series E-ISSN: 2365-6425
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 308
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Cosmology, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics