Recent Developments in General Relativity

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVII

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • P. Fré

      Pages 1-2

3. General Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 3-3

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   2. Special Relativity at Action in the Universe

      • G. Ghisellini

      Pages 5-17

   3. String Theory and General Relativity

      • M. Porrati

      Pages 19-24

   4. Virgo — a Laser Interferometer for Gravitational Wave Detection

      • C. Bradaschia

      Pages 25-29

   5. A Space Test of General Relativity

      • I. Ciufolini

      Pages 31-41

   6. Canonical “Loop” Quantum Gravity and Spin Foam Models

      • R. De Pietri

      Pages 43-61

   7. A Possible Way to Define an Effective Cosmological Constant in Scalar-Tensor Cosmologies

      • S. Capozziello, R. de Ritis, A. A. Marino, C. Rubano, P. Scudellaro

      Pages 63-70

   8. A Microscopic Approach to Nuclear Physics: from Deuteron to Neutron Stars

      • A. Fabrocini

      Pages 71-86

   9. Perspectives in the Research of Gravitational Waves: Omnidirectional Resonant Detectors

      • V. Fafone

      Pages 87-103

   10. The Entropy of Black Holes via Noether’s Theorem

       • L. Fatibene, M. Ferraris, M. Francaviglia, M. Raiteri

       Pages 105-117

   11. Dual Lagrangian Theories

       • M. Ferraris, M. Raiteri

       Pages 119-135

   12. The Boundary State Description of D-Branes

       • A. Lerda

       Pages 137-148

   13. The N-Body Problem in Tetrad Gravity: A First Step towards a Unified Description of the Four Interactions

       • L. Lusanna

       Pages 149-172

   14. Applications of Calculus of Variations to General Relativity

       • A. Masiello

       Pages 173-195

   15. The Search for Gravitational Waves with Resonant Detectors

       • G. Pizzella

       Pages 197-204

   16. Cauchy-Perturbative Matching and Outer Boundary Conditions

       • L. Rezzolla

       Pages 205-222

   17. Branes in Anti-de Sitter Space-Time

       • M. Trigiante

       Pages 223-239

   18. Black Hole Entropy

       • L. Vanzo

       Pages 241-252

The 13th Italian Conference on General Relativity and Gravitational Physics was held in Cala Corvino-Monopoli (Bari) from September 21to September 25, 1998. The Conference, which is held every other year in different Italian locations, has brought together, as in the earlier conferences in this series, those scientists who are interested and actively work in all aspects of general relativity, from both the mathematical and the physical points of view: from classical theories of gravitation to quantum gravity, from relativistic astrophysics and cosmology to experiments in gravitation. About 70 participants came from Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Departments of Mathematics and Departments of Experimental and Theoretical Physics from all over the Country; in addition a few Italian scientists working abroad kindly accepted invitations from the Scientific Committee. The good wishes of the University and of the Politecnico di Bari were conveyed by the director of Diparti­ mento Interuniversitario di Matematica, Prof. Franco Altomare. These proceedings contain the contributions of the two winners of the SIGRAV prizes, the invited talks presented at the Conference and most of the contributed talks. We thank all of our colleagues, who did their best to prepare their manuscripts. The pleasant atmosphere induced by the beauty of the place was greatlyenhanced not only by the participation of so many colleagues, who had lively discussions about science well beyond Conference hours, but also by the feeling of hospitalityextended to the participants by the staff of the Cala Corvino Hotel, where the Conference was held.

• Accretion
• General relativity
• Gravity
• Relativity
• Special relativity
• astrophysics
• gravitational waves
• topological methods
• variational methods

• Dipartimento Interuniversitario di Matematica, Università di Bari, Bari, Italy

  B. Casciaro, D. Fortunato

• Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy

  M. Francaviglia

• Dipartimento Interuniversitario, Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy

  A. Masiello

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