Proceedings of the 10th Marcel Grossmann meeting on GR, part C

CONTENTS......Page 34
Publications in this Series and Sponsors......Page 6
Organizing Bodies Of The Tenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting......Page 8
Marcel Grossmann Awards......Page 10
Preface......Page 16
Inaugural Address......Page 20
Numerical Relativity Black Hole Collisions and Algebraic Computation......Page 50
Numerical Simulation of General Relativistic Stellar Collapse......Page 52
Testing Binary Black Hole Codes Using Cosmological Spacetimes......Page 55
The Smoothness of Null Infinity: Its Relevance for Numerical Relativity......Page 58
Collapse of a Differentially Rotating Supermassive Star......Page 61
Analysing Curved Spacetimes with Tensor Splats......Page 64
Gravitational Lenses......Page 70
On the Mass of the Gravitational Lenses in LMC......Page 72
Uncovering Stellar Atmospheres with Gravitational Microlensing Telescopes......Page 75
Uncovering Galactic and Extragalactic Planets by Gravitational Microlensing......Page 78
Gravitational Lensing by Spinning Deflectors......Page 81
Black Hole Gravitational Lensing in the Strong Field Limit......Page 84
Variable "Constants" of Nature......Page 88
Constraints on the Variations of Fundamental Constants......Page 90
Galaxies and the Large-Scale Structure......Page 94
Large-Scale Structure at High Redshift......Page 96
Topology of the Universe......Page 100
A Note on the Robustness of Pair Separation Methods in Cosmic Topology......Page 102
The Topology of the Universe Via Astronomical Data......Page 106
Consequences of Observational Uncertainties on the Detection of Cosmic Topology......Page 109
Casimir Effect in Compact Universes......Page 113
Superstring Compactification as a Common Foundation for Large Scale Structure and Micro-Structure......Page 128
Brane-World Cosmology......Page 132
Brane Dynamics in a 6D Model......Page 134
Constraints in Brane-World......Page 137
Geometry EFE's and Foundations for Braneworlds......Page 140
Cosmological Limits on Brane-World Disappearing Dark Matter......Page 143
Compatible Dynamics for Brane-Worlds in Flat Bulks......Page 146
FRW Braneworlds: Aspects of Localization of Gravity......Page 149
Fine-Tuning for the Six Dimensional Hyperstring......Page 152
Cosmology on a Brane-Induced Gravity with Dilaton and Trace Anomaly......Page 158
A Brane Model Its Ads-DS States and Their Agitated Extra Dimensions......Page 160
Models of the Early Universe and CMB Anisotropies......Page 164
Scalar Perturbations in a'-Regularised Pre-Big Bang Models......Page 166
Perturbations Propagation in a Bouncing Universe......Page 169
Testing and Comparing Tachyon Inflation to Single Standard Field Inflation......Page 173
Propagating Cosmological Perturbations in a Bouncing Universe......Page 178
An Isotropization Mechanism in Bianchi I Cosmology......Page 181
Testing the Paradigm of Adiabaticity......Page 184
CMB Anisotropies Through Axion Decay in Pre-Big Bang Models......Page 189
Inhomogeneous Cosmology......Page 192
Generalisations of the Einstein-Straus Model to Cylindrically Symmetric Settings......Page 194
Pre-Inflationary Perturbations Spectrum......Page 197
Fundamental Gravitational Entropy Constraints as Source of Global Cosmic Inhomogeneity Scales......Page 200
Nonsingular Cosmology - Inflation......Page 204
Inverse Slow-Roll Problem: A Monte Carlo Approach......Page 206
Non-Singular Stiff Fluids......Page 209
Minimal Embeddings of the Spacetime......Page 212
Cosmic Coincidence with a New Type of Dark Matter......Page 215
Solving Two Puzzles in One Go: Quintessence from a Decaying Dark Matter......Page 218
CMBR Constraints on the Generalized Chaplygin Gas Model......Page 221
Observational Constraints on Flat Chaplygin Quartessence Models......Page 224
Is the Universe Really Accelerating?......Page 227
Decaying A Cosmology with Varying G......Page 230
WMAP Constraints on a Quintessence Model......Page 233
De Sitter Physics......Page 236
Interacting Quintessence and the Coincidence Problem......Page 239
Inner Engine: Symmetries and Spectra of GRBs......Page 242
Magnetic Fields in GRB Progenitors......Page 244
Relativistic Induced Compression of Neutron Stars and White Dwarfs......Page 247
Electron-Positron-Photon Plasma Around a Collapsing Star......Page 250
On the Dynamical Formation of the Dyadosphere......Page 257
The Collapsar and Supranova Models......Page 266
A Model for the Inner Engine of Gamma Ray Bursts......Page 268
Global Structure Singularities and Cosmic Censorship......Page 272
Definition and Classification of Singularities in GR: Classical and Quantum......Page 274
New Self-Similar Solution to the Scalar Field Collapse in Four-Dimensions......Page 277
Dimensionality Self-Similarity and Critical Collapse......Page 280
A New Class of Obstructions to the Smoothness of Null Infinity......Page 283
Naked Singularities in the Gravitational Collapse of Null Radiation and a String Fluid......Page 287
On the Global Existence Problems in Gowdy Symmetric Spacetimes with Type IIB Stringy Matter......Page 290
Chaos in General Relativity and Cosmology......Page 294
Stochastic Stabilization of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation......Page 296
Mixmaster Chaos Via the Invariant Measure......Page 299
Covariant Lyapunov Exponents for the Mixmaster......Page 302
Chaos and Universality in the Dynamics of Inflationary Models......Page 305
On the Role of the Entangled States in the Properties of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation......Page 308
Nonlinear Decay of the Inflaton Turbulence and Thermalization......Page 310
Nonlinear Resonance of KAM Tori in Inflationary Cosmologies......Page 313
Noise and Dissipation During Preheating......Page 316
Chaos in a Closed Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Universe: An Imaginary Approach......Page 319
Chaos of Yang-Mills Field in Bianchi Spacetimes......Page 322
Einstein-Maxwell Systems......Page 326
Electrovacuum Static Relativistic Thin Disks with Nonzero Radial Pressure......Page 328
Inertial Forces Rotation Complex and Twistor Methods in General Relativity......Page 332
Gravitomagnetic Measurement of the Angular Momentum of Celestial Bodies......Page 334
Inertial Forces in Relativity......Page 337
Action Principle Formulation for Motion of Extended Bodies in General Relativity......Page 340
Vorticity and Kinks......Page 343
Wormholes Energy Conditions and Time Machines......Page 346
Comments on the Allowed Spatial Distributions of Negative Energy......Page 348
Temperature of Wormhole with Exotic Matter......Page 351
Some Thoughts on Energy Conditions and Wormholes......Page 354
Exact Solutions (Mathematical Aspects)......Page 368
What Does a Dynamical Magnetic Monopole Do?......Page 370
New Euclidon Method of Generating Stationary Vacuum Einstein Fields......Page 373
Gauge Fields and Particle-Like Formations Associated with Shear-Free Null Congruences......Page 376
Exact Solutions (Physical Aspects)......Page 380
Scalar and Spinor Perturbation to the Most Generalised Kerr-NUT Space-Time......Page 382
Stationary Non-Circular Spacetimes......Page 386
Definition and Classification of Singularities in GR: Classical and Quantum......Page 389
Kerr-Newman Solution and Spin 1/2......Page 392
Kinematic Self-Similar Solutions and Their Properties......Page 395
The Newtonian Limit of Spacetimes Describing Uniformly Accelerated Particles......Page 398
Rotating Cosmological Models of Bianchi Type V......Page 402
False Vacuum Lumps with the Fermionic Core......Page 405
Resonant Detectors of Gravitational Waves: Bars and Spheres......Page 408
The Brazilian Spherical Detector: Status Report......Page 410
EXPLORER and NAUTILUS: Present Status......Page 414
A Mathematical Model for the Quadrupolar Oscillations of the Brazilian Gravitational Wave Detector......Page 424
Can Black Hole MACHO Binaries be Detected by the Brazilian Spherical Antenna?......Page 427
The Vibration Isolation Design for the Transducers Cabling of the Schenberg Detector......Page 430
Superconductor Reentrant Cavities for the Parametric Transducers of the Brazilian Mario Schenberg Gravitational Wave Detector......Page 433
Distribution of the Energy of Cosmic Ray Particles in the Modes of a Spherical Gravitational Wave Antenna......Page 437
Gravitational Wave Laser Interferometry......Page 440
Quantum Locking of Mirrors in Interferometric Measurements......Page 442
Gravity Gradients in LIGO: A Proposal for Data Analysis......Page 445
Thermal Noise from Optical Coatings......Page 448
4-Mass Torsion Pendulum for Ground Testing of LISA Displacement Sensors......Page 451
Research and Development for Large-Scale Cryogenic Gravitational Wave Telescope (LCGT)......Page 455
Charging of the LISA Test Masses: Sources Consequences and Management......Page 458
Gravitational Wave Data Analysis......Page 462
Response of the Mario Schenberg Gravitational Wave Detector to Signals from a Black Hole Ringdown......Page 464
Resolving Signals in the LISA Data......Page 467
Gravitational-Wave Data Analysis from Earth to Space: Computational and Theoretical Challenges......Page 470
Can a Background of Gravitational Waves Constrain the Star Formation History of the Universe?......Page 473
Einstein Theories: Historical Perspective......Page 476
Precessions in General Relativity......Page 478
Correlation of Maxima in Long-Period Variable Stars: From Eddington to Present Time......Page 483
Kaluza's and Klein's Contributions to the Kaluza-Klein-Theory......Page 486
Strong Gravity and Gravitational Waves......Page 494
Gravitational Wave Emission from a Bounded Source: The Nonlinear Regime......Page 496
Precision Gravity Measurements......Page 500
Inverse Square Law Test - Preliminary Results of Ljubljana Experiment......Page 502
General Relativity in Space and Sensitive Tests of the Equivalence Principle......Page 506
The Theory of a Free-Fall Equivalence-Principle Experiment in a Drag-Free Satellite......Page 508
Testing the Universality of Free Fall for Charged Particles under Microgravity Conditions......Page 512
On the Possibility of Measuring the Lense-Thirring Effect with a LAGEOS-LAGEOS II-OPTIS Mission......Page 515
An Alternative View of the Fine Structure Constant and its Variation: Bringing the Flux Quanta into the Definition of the Electron......Page 518
Investigation of the Gyro Suspension Torques on the NASA-Stanford Gravity Probe B (GP-B) Relativity Mission......Page 521
Quantum Gravity Phenomenology......Page 526
Lorentz Invariance: Present Experimental Status......Page 528
Deformations of the Schwarzschild Black Hole......Page 538
Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry Generated by Loop Quantum Gravity......Page 544
Quantum Stress Tensor Fluctuations and Raychaudhuri's Equation......Page 547
Flat Space Modified Particle Dynamics Induced by Loop Quantum Gravity......Page 550
Phenomenological Implications for Canonical Noncommutative Spacetime......Page 560
Nonpertubative Gravitational Events at the TeV Scale......Page 563
Testing the Fundamentals of Physics Using Cryogenic Microwave Oscillators......Page 566
Conformal Group with Two Observer Independent Scales......Page 569
Translational Invariance and Noncommutative Field Theories......Page 572
Phenomenology of Space-Time Fluctuations......Page 583
Quantum Foam......Page 595
Quantum Fields......Page 608
Topological Gravity Kaluza-Klein Reduction and the Kink......Page 610
Are Classically Singular Spacetimes Quantum-Mechanically Singular as Well?......Page 614
Generalised Zeta-Function Regularization for Scalar One-Loop Effective Action......Page 617
Absorption Cross Sections of Low Energy Photons for the Schwarzschild and Extreme Reissner-Nordstrom Black Holes in Arbitrary Dimensions Higher than Three......Page 621
Yang-Mills Theories Using Only Extended Fields (Vectorial and Scalar) as Gauge Fields......Page 624
Confined Quantum Field Theory......Page 630
Einstein Anomalies in Higher Dimensional Riemann-Cartan Space......Page 636
Particle Creation by Naked Singularity in Self-Similar Collapse......Page 639
Chronology Protection Around a Spinning Cosmic String......Page 642
Some Quantum Effects in the Spacetimes of Topological Defects......Page 644
Vacuum Fluctuations Around a Dispiration......Page 647
Semiclassical Spacetime of a Cosmic Dispiration......Page 650
New Developments and the Time Issue in Quantum Gravity......Page 654
Spacetime or Space and the Problem of Time......Page 656
The Three Perspectives on the Quantum-Gravity Problem and Their Implications for the Fate of Lorentz Symmetry......Page 659
On the Frame Fixing in Quantum Gravity......Page 662
Casimir Effect and Short-Range Gravity......Page 666
Forms on Vector Bundles over Three-Dimensional Hyperbolic Spaces and Black-Hole Geometry......Page 668
Entropy Bounds for a Massive Scalar Field in Positive Curvature Space......Page 671
On the Two-Loop Casimir Effect......Page 674
Constraints on Corrections to Newtonian Law of Gravitation from the Measurements of the Lateral Casimir Force......Page 677
Measurement of the Casimir Force Between Parallel Metallic Surfaces......Page 680
MIR: A Proposal for the Measurement of the Non-Stationary Casimir Effect......Page 683
Vacuum Pressures in a Strong Magnetic Field and Casimir Forces......Page 686
The Complete Classification of Stable Static Solitons in the Gross-Neveu Model......Page 692
Enhanced Vacuum Fluctuations near the Focus of a Parabolic Mirror......Page 696
Quasi-Oscillatory Casimir Forces......Page 699
Casimir Energy and Photon Creation in k-Deformed Quantum Electromagnetism......Page 702
The Casimir Force Between Rough Metallic Plates......Page 705
Casimir Energy and Inertia......Page 708
Is the Cosmological Constant a Problem?......Page 711
Loop Quantum Gravity Quantum Geometry Spin Foams......Page 714
Short-Distance Cutoffs in Curved Space......Page 716
Some Encouraging and Some Cautionary Remarks on Doubly Special Relativity in Quantum Gravity......Page 721
Quantum Holonomies in (2+1)-Dimensional Gravity......Page 726
The Pauli Exclusion Principle Spin and Statistics in Loop Quantum Gravity: SU(2) Versus SO(3)......Page 731
Towards Regge Calculus on 3 Dimensional Manifolds with Boundary......Page 736
Renormalization for Spin Foam Models of Quantum Gravity......Page 741
Discrete Geometry in Loop Quantum Gravity and the Lorentz Contraction......Page 746
Quantum Cosmology and Quantum Effects in the Early Universe......Page 750
Ashtekar-Wheeler-DeWitt Equation and Inflationary Scenario......Page 752
Quantum Cosmology and the Accelerated Universe......Page 755
Noncommutative Scalar-Tensor Cosmology......Page 759
Green Function for Topology Change......Page 762
Fundamental Issues in Quantum Theory......Page 766
Decoherence Due to Fluctuating Electromagnetic Fields......Page 768
Functional Approach to (2+1)-Dimensional Gravity......Page 771
How a de Broglie Bohm Formulation of FRW Cosmology Induces Large Extra Dimensions Features......Page 774
Covariant Quantization......Page 778
Aspects of M5-Brane Dynamics......Page 780
Perturbative Approaches to Quantum Gravity and Strings......Page 788
De Sitter Space with Finitely Many States: A Toy Story......Page 791
AdS/CFT......Page 798
Closed Causal Curves in String Theory......Page 800
Higher Dimensional Black Holes and AdS/CFT Conjecture......Page 803
Braneworlds and Cosmology......Page 806
Irreversible Processes and Cosmological Models......Page 808
Branons as Dark Matter......Page 811
Regular Cosmological Solutions in Effective Action from String Theories with Moduli Fields......Page 814
M-Theory and Dualities......Page 818
An Abelian Cohomological Theory of Hodge Type......Page 820
A-String: A Hybrid Between Einstein's and String Paradigms......Page 823
Self-Gravitating Systems 1......Page 826
Density Wave Theory of Galactic Spiral Arms. The Shearing Sheet Model......Page 828
NFW Galactic Profiles in the Newtonian Limit of Scalar-Tensor Theories......Page 831
Gravitating Self-Dual Cylindrical Solutions in Gauged Sigma Models......Page 834
Self-Gravitating Systems 2......Page 838
Rotating Boson and Boson-Fermion Stars......Page 840
Interacting Geodesics: Binary Systems Around a Black Hole......Page 846
Functional Analysis in Self-Gravitating and Rotating Systems......Page 851
Relation Between Dynamic and Thermodynamic Stability of Relativistic Stellar Clusters with Cutoff and Gas Spheres in a Spherical Box......Page 856
Self-Gravitating Systems with Rotation and Vorticity......Page 860
General Relativistic Polytropes with a Repulsive Cosmological Constant......Page 868
Astrophysics and Cosmology with Future Ground-Based Gamma Ray Telescopes......Page 872
Unidentified EGRET Sources......Page 874
Relativistic Electrons & Magnetic Fields in Clusters of Galaxies......Page 877
Frontiers in Cosmic Rays......Page 880
The Emission of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays from Electromagnetic Black Holes......Page 882
The Lamb Shift and Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays......Page 887
The First Stars and GRBs at High Redshifts......Page 894
Inferences on the ISM Structure Around GRB980425 and GRB 980425-SN1998bw Association in the EMBH Model......Page 896
General Features of GRB 030329 in the EMBH Model......Page 904
GRB 970228 and Its Associated Supernova within the EMBH Model......Page 910
The Early Quasars and Their Cosmological Uses......Page 914
Swift: The Next-Generation Gamma-Ray Burst Mission......Page 916
List of Participants......Page 920
Author Index......Page 930