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Record Nr.

UNINA9910741139203321

Autore

Licata Ignazio

Titolo

De Sitter Projective Relativity / / by Ignazio Licata, Leonardo Chiatti, Elmo Benedetto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-52271-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 108 p. 8 illus.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Physics, , 2191-5423

Disciplina

530.1

Soggetti

Gravitation

Cosmology

Quantum theory

Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory

Quantum Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

De Sitter Relativity: A Sixty-Year-Long Story -- Steps Towards the de Sitter Relativity -- Projective Special Relativity -- Point, Fluid and Wave Mechanics -- Cosmic Electromagnetism -- Projective General Relativity (PGR).

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents the Projective approach to de Sitter Relativity. It traces the development of renewed interest in models of the universe at constant positive curvature such as "vacuum" geometry. The De Sitter Theory of Relativity, formulated in 1917 with Willem De Sitter's solution of the Einstein equations, was used in different fields during the 1950s and 1960s, in the work of H. Bacry, J.M. LevyLeblond and F.Gursey, to name some important contributors. From the 1960s to 1980s, L. FantappiƩ and G. Arcidiacono provided an elegant group approach to the De Sitter universe putting the basis for special and general projective relativity. Today such suggestions flow into a unitary scenario, and this way the De Sitter Relativity is no more a "missing opportunity" (F. Dyson, 1972), but has a central role in theoretical physics. In this volume a systematic presentation is given of the De Sitter Projective relativity, with the recent developments in projective



general relativity and quantum cosmology.