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Recent Developments in Gravitation

Cargèse 1978

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  • © 1979

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Editors:
  1. Maurice Lévy

    1. Laboratory of Theoretical Physics and High Energies, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

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  2. S. Deser

    1. Brandeis University, Waltham, USA

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series B: (NSSB, volume 44)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Classical Relativity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Status of Experimental Gravitation

      • Bruno Bertotti
      Pages 3-22

    3. An Introduction to General Relativity and its Recent Achievements

      • Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
      Pages 23-40

    4. Underlying Mathematical Structures of Classical Gravitation Theory

      • Brandon Carter
      Pages 41-142

  4. Supergravity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 403-403
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    2. Supergravity and Superspace

      • Bruno Zumino
      Pages 405-459

    3. The Dynamics of Supergravity

      • S. Deser
      Pages 461-477

    4. Extended Supersymmetry and Extended Supergravity Theories

      • J. Scherk
      Pages 479-517

    5. Lectures in Supergravity Theory

      • P. van Nieuwenhuizen
      Pages 519-548

    6. Irreducible Representations of Supersymmetry

      • Daniel Z. Freedman
      Pages 549-561

    7. Massive Gravitinos

      • S. Ferrara
      Pages 563-575

    8. Anomalies in Supersymmetric Theories

      • M. T. Grisaru
      Pages 577-592
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About this book

The theory of General Relativity, after its invention by Albert Einstein, remained for many years a monument of mathemati­ cal speculation, striking in its ambition and its formal beauty, but quite separated from the main stream of modern Physics, which had centered, after the early twenties, on quantum mechanics and its applications. In the last ten or fifteen years, however, the situation has changed radically. First, a great deal of significant exper~en­ tal data became available. Then important contributions were made to the incorporation of general relativity into the framework of quantum theory. Finally, in the last three years, exciting devel­ opments took place which have placed general relativity, and all the concepts behind it, at the center of our understanding of par­ ticle physics and quantum field theory. Firstly, this is due to the fact that general relativity is really the "original non-abe­ lian gauge theory," and that our description of quantum field in­ teractions makes extensive use of the concept of gauge invariance. Secondly, the ideas of supersymmetry have enabled theoreticians to combine gravity with other elementary particle interactions, and to construct what is perhaps the first approach to a more finite quantum theory of gravitation, which is known as super­ gravity.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Laboratory of Theoretical Physics and High Energies, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

    Maurice Lévy

  • Brandeis University, Waltham, USA

    S. Deser

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Recent Developments in Gravitation

  • Book Subtitle: Cargèse 1978

  • Editors: Maurice Lévy, S. Deser

  • Series Title: NATO Science Series B:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2955-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1979

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-40198-5Due: 01 October 1979

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-2957-2Published: 18 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-2955-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0258-1221

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 596

  • Topics: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory

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