On Einstein's Path: Essays in Honor of Engelbert Schucking

ISBN-13: 9780387985640 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 517 str.

Alex Harvey; E. L. Schucking; A. Harvey

Opis

Friends and colleagues of Engelbert Schucking came together in a symposium on the 12th and 13th of December 1996 at New York University to celebrate and express to him their respect, admiration, and affection. They came to celebrate his scientific and scholarly achievements, the inspirational quality of his teaching, his graciousness as a colleague, his thoughtful guidance of graduate students, his service to the department, the university and the physics community at large-and, not least, his open, courteous, easy accessibility to anyone needing his counselor expertise. The announcement was A SYMPOSIUM In Honor of PROF. ENGELBERT SCHUCKING Physics Department-New York University On December 12th and 13th there will be a Symposium to honor Professor Engel bert Schucking for his service to the University, the Department, and the Physics Community. The December 12th session will run from 1 to 6 PM followed by a reception. The following morning the session will run from 9 AM to 1 PM. Atten dance (including the reception) is open to all friends and colleagues of Professor Schucking and anyone interested in General Relativity. The talks will be presented in Room 121, 4 Washington Place; the reception will be in the office of Dean Furmankis, 5 Washington Square North from 6:15 to 8:00 PM Thursday Afternoon: Greetings Alice S."

Spis treści

Introduction.- Jordan, Pauli, Politics, Brecht...and a Variable Gravitational Constant. Thomsom Scattering in an Expanding Universe.- Geometrical Formulation of Quantum Mechanics.- General Covariance is Bose-Einstein Statistics.- The Split and Propagation of Light Rays in Relativity.- How to Define a Unique Vacuum in Cosmology.- EIH Theory and Noether's Theorem.- The Static Cylinder in General Relativity.- Gravity and the Tenacious Scalar Field.- The Cavendish Experiment in General Relativity.- Wave Maps in General Relativity.- General Relativty and Experiment.- Some Developments in Newtonian Cosmology.- Deviation of Geodesics in FLRW Spacetime Geometries.- Poincairé Pseudo-symmetries in Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes.- Taub Numbers and Asymptotic Invariants.- Second Class Constraints.- On the Structure of the Energy-momentum and the Spin Currents in Dirac's Electron Theory.- The Physical Reality of the Quantum Wave Function.- The Ultimate Extension of the Bianchi Classification for Rotating Dust Models.- On the Classification of the Real Four-dimensional Lie Algebras.- Spinning Universes in Newtonian Cosmology.- Relativistic Gravitational Fields with Close Newtonian Analogs.- Working with Engelbert.- Some Remarks on Twistor Theory.- Critique of the Wheeler-De Witt Equation.- A New Version of the Heavenly Equation.- A Plain Man's Guide to Bivectors, Biquarernion, and the Algebra and Geometry of Lorentz Transformations.- Leon Lichtenstein's Work on Rotating Fluids.- Decaying Neutrinos and the Flattening of the Galactic Halo.- The Kasner Condition and Inhomogeneous Perfect Fluid Cosmologies.- Gravitational Screening.- On the Interpretation of the Einstein- Cartan Formalism.- On Complex Structures in Physics.- The Englebert Experience: Pathways from the Past.- Curriculum Vita.