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

1. Front Matter

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2. OPENING REMARKS

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Recorded in Santa Barbara

      • David Gross

      Pages 1-8

   3. Opening

      • Marc Henneaux

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3. CONTRIBUTED PAPERS

   1. Front Matter

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   2. On the Symmetries of Classical String Theory

      • Constantin P. Bachas

      Pages 1-10

   3. Eddington-Born-Infeld Action and the Dark Side of General Relativity

      • Máximo Bañados

      Pages 1-6

   4. Maximal Supersymmetric Theories and E7(7) in Light-Cone Superspace

      • Lars Brink

      Pages 1-37

   5. Strongly Hyperbolic Extensions of the ADM Hamiltonian

      • J. David Brown

      Pages 1-20

   6. Black Hole Entropy and the Problem of Universality

      • S. Carlip

      Pages 1-15

   7. Sources for Chern-Simons theories

      • José D. Edelstein, Jorge Zanelli

      Pages 1-17

   8. The Emergence of Fermions and The E11 Content

      • François Englert, Laurent Houart

      Pages 1-22

   9. Why did the Universe Inflate?

      • S.W. Hawking

      Pages 1-7

   10. Kac-Moody algebras and the structure of cosmological singularities: a new light on the Belinskii-Khalatnikov-Lifshitz analysis

       • Marc Henneaux

       Pages 1-11

   11. Black holes with a conformally coupled scalar field

       • Cristián Martínez

       Pages 1-13

   12. Quantum Mechanics on some Supermanifolds

       • Luca Mezincescu

       Pages 1-12

   13. John Wheeler's Quest for Beauty and Simplicity

       • Charles W. Misner

       Pages 1-4

   14. Magnetic Monopoles in Electromagnetism and Gravity

       • Rubén Portugués

       Pages 1-16

   15. The Census Taker's Hat

       • Leonard Susskind

       Pages 1-53

   16. Static wormholes in vacuum and gravity in diverse dimensions

       • Ricardo Troncoso

       Pages 1-19

This article is dedicated to Claudio Bunster on the occasion of his 60th birthday. It is a great honor to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to him, who in my opinion has been the greatest national physicist ever, for his wise guidance and intrepid support through the years. As a Chilean, I can further tell that Claudio’s contributions have been well far beyond theoretical physics, helping our country to be ready to face future challenges through science. Gravity in diverse dimensions is a subject in which Claudio has done major c- tributions, encouraging in many ways the following work, that is being made along different fronts in collaboration with my colleagues Diego Correa, Gustavo Dotti, Julio Oliva and David Tempo. Thepursuitforwormholesolutions,whicharehandlesinthespacetimetopology, it is as old as General Relativity and it has appeared in theoretical physics within different subjects, ranging from the attempt of describing physics as pure geometry, as in the Einstein–Rosen bridge model of a particle [1], to the concept of “charge withoutcharge”[2],aswell asindifferentissuesconcerningthe Euclideanapproach to quantum gravity (see, e.g., [3]). More recently, the systematic study of this kind of objects was pushed forward by the works of Morris, Thorne and Yurtsever [4,5].

• Black hole dynamics
• Claudio Bunster
• Claudio Teitelboim
• EFE
• Gravity
• Relativity
• general relativity
• quantum gravity
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