Deserfest [[electronic resource] ] : a celebration of the life and works of Stanley Deser : Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 3-5 April 2004 / / editors, James T. Liu ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910458526603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Singapore ; ; Hackensack, N.J., : World Scientific, c2006
• ISBN: 1-281-91969-1; 9786611919696; 981-277-480-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (390 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): DeserS (Stanley); LiuJames T
• Disciplina: 531/.14
• Soggetti: Gravitation; Supergravity; Supersymmetry; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface -- A celebration of the life and works of Stanley Deser -- Causality and learning in neural systems / L. F. Abbott -- Some results in M-theory inspired phenomenology / R. Arnowitt, B. Dutta and B. Hu -- A unified view of particles and black holes in 2+1-dimensional gravity / D. Brill -- A non-geometric approach to 11-dimensional supergravity / L. Brink -- Cosmological singularities, billiards and Lorentzian Kac-Moody algebras / T. Damour -- Generalized holonomy in M-theory / A. Batrachenko ... [et al.] -- Orientifolds, Brane coordinates and special geometry / R. D'Auria, S. Ferrara and M. Trigiante -- Consistent reductions of higher dimensional gravity and supergravity theories / G. W. Gibbons -- Electric-magnetic duality in gravity / M. Henneaux and C. Teitelboim -- R[symbol] terms in supergravity and M-theory / P. Howe -- Marriage of 4-dimensional gravity to the 3-dimensional Chern-Simons term / R. Jackiw -- Einstein-�ther theory / C. Eling, T. Jacobson and D. Mattingly -- ; Hyperboloidal slices and artificial cosmology for numerical relativity / C. W. Misner -- Some applications of the ADM formalism / J. E. Nelson -- Integrability + supersymmetry + boundary: life on the edge is not so dull after all! / R. I. Nepomechie -- An effective field theory description for Kaluza-Klein supergravity on AdS[symbol] x S[symbol] / H. Nicolai and H. Samtleben -- Massive gravity in AdS and Minkowski backgrounds / M. Porrati -- Many roads lead to N=2 Seiberg-Witten theory / S. G. Naculich and H. J. Schnitzer -- Non-commutative topologically massive gauge theory / N. Caporaso ... [et al.] -- The main postulates and results of loop quantum gravity / L. Smolin -- Counterterms, holonomy and supersymmetry / K. S. Stelle -- Milne and Torus universes meet / A. Waldron -- Diquarks as inspiration and as objects / F. Wilczek -- De sitter breaking in field theory / R. P. Woodard -- Publications of Stanley Deser -- Photographs.