Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Gravitation and Modern Cosmology

The Cosmological Constants Problem

  • Book
  • © 1991

Overview

Editors:
  1. Antonino Zichichi

    1. European Physical Society, Geneva, Switzerland

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. Venzo Sabbata

    1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  3. Norma Sánchez

    1. Section de Meudon, Demirm, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, Meudon Principal Cedex, France

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Ettore Majorana International Science Series (EMISS, volume 56)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
    Download chapter PDF

  2. My Life

    • Peter G. Bergmann
    Pages 1-4

  3. Effective Action Model for the Cosmological Constant Revisited

    • Stephen L. Adler
    Pages 5-10

  4. Could Final States of Stellar Evolution Proceed Towards Naked Singularities?

    • Nicola Dallaporta
    Pages 11-18

  5. Torsion, Quantum Effects and the Problem of Cosmological Constant

    • Venzo de Sabbata, C. Sivaram
    Pages 19-36

  6. Variations of Constants and Exact Solutions in Multidimensional Gravity

    • S. B. Fadeev, V. D. Ivashchuk, V. N. Melnikov
    Pages 37-49

  7. Larger Scale Structure in the Lyman-Alpha Absorption Lines

    • Li-Zhi Fang
    Pages 51-57

  8. Null Surface Canonical Formalism

    • J. N. Goldberg, D. C. Robinson, C. Soteriou
    Pages 59-64

  9. Qualitative Cosmology

    • I. M. Khalatnikov
    Pages 65-85

  10. Third Quantization of Gravity and the Cosmological Constant Problem

    • G. Lavrelashvili, V. A. Rubakov, P. G. Tinyakov
    Pages 87-99

  11. Cosmological Constant, Quantum Cosmology and Anthropic Principle

    • Andrei Linde
    Pages 101-119

  12. On the Gravitational Field of an Arbitrary Axisymmetric Mass Endowed with Magnetic Dipole Moment

    • Igor D. Novikov, Vladimir S. Manko
    Pages 121-128

  13. Twistors as Spin 3/2 Charges

    • Roger Penrose
    Pages 129-137

  14. Experimental Search of Gravitational Waves

    • Guido Pizzella
    Pages 139-150

  15. A Simple Model of the Universe without Singularities

    • Nathan Rosen, Mark Israelit
    Pages 151-156

  16. String Theory and the Quantization of Gravity

    • N. Sánchez
    Pages 157-178

  17. Projective Unified Field Theory in Context with the Cosmological Term and the Variability of the Gravitational Constant

    • Ernst Schmutzer
    Pages 179-184

  18. The Introduction of the Cosmological Constant

    • E. L. Schucking
    Pages 185-187

  19. Pre-Post-History of Tolman’s Cosmos

    • E. L. Schucking, S. Lauro, J.-Z. Wang
    Pages 189-200

  20. Some Ideas on the Cosmological Constant Problem

    • G. Veneziano
    Pages 201-216
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Peter Gabriel Bergmann started his work on general relativity in 1936 when he moved from Prague to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Bergmann collaborated with Einstein in an attempt to provide a geometrical unified field theory of gravitation and electromagnetism. Within this program they wrote two articles together: A. Einstein and P. G. Bergmann, Ann. Math. 39, 685 (1938) ; and A. Einstein, V. Bargmann and P. G. Bergmann, Th. von Karman Anniversary Volume 212 (1941). The search for such a theory was intense in the ten years following the birth of general relativity. In recent years, some of the geometrical ideas proposed in these publications have proved essential in contemporary attempts towards the unification of all interactions including gravity, Kaluza-Klein type theories and supergravity theories. In 1942, Bergmann published the book "Introduction to the Theory of Relativity" which included a foreword by Albert Einstein. This book is a reference for the subject, either as a textbook for classroom use or for individual study. A second corrected and enlarged edition of the book was published in 1976. Einstein said in his foreword to the first edition: "Bergmann's book seems to me to satisfy a definite need. . . Much effort has gone into making this book logically and pedagogically satisfactory and Bergmann has spent many hours with me which were devoted to this end.

Editors and Affiliations

  • European Physical Society, Geneva, Switzerland

    Antonino Zichichi

  • Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Venzo Sabbata

  • Section de Meudon, Demirm, Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, Meudon Principal Cedex, France

    Norma Sánchez

Bibliographic Information

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation