Recent Developments in General Relativity, Genoa 2000

Front Matter....Pages I-XXI
In Memory of Ruggiero de Ritis July 1, 1943 — September 8, 2000....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Radiative Spacetimes....Pages 11-23
Instantons and Scattering....Pages 25-46
The Early Universe, the Present Universe....Pages 47-61
2D Dynamical Triangulations and the Weil-Petersson Measure....Pages 63-74
Nöther Conserved Quantities and Entropy in General Relativity....Pages 75-91
Spinors, Supergravity and the Signature of Space-Time....Pages 93-110
VIRGO: An Interferometric Detector of Gravitational Waves....Pages 111-119
Oscillation and Instabilities of Relativistic Stars....Pages 121-139
Active Galactic Nuclei and the Properties of Supermassive Black Holes....Pages 141-150
Huygens’ Principle and MAPLE’s NPspinor Package....Pages 151-163
Hamiltonian Structure of 2+1 Dimensional Gravity....Pages 165-177
Covariant Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Symmetries....Pages 179-201
Anti-de Sitter Quantum Field Theory and the AdS-CFT Correspondence....Pages 203-216
Geodetic Contributions to Gravitational Experiments in Space....Pages 217-233
The r-modes Oscillations and Instability: Surprises from Magnetized Neutron Stars....Pages 235-248
Strong Field Gravity and Quasi-Periodic Oscillations from Low-Mass X-ray Binaries....Pages 249-260
What Have We learned about Gamma Ray Bursts from Afterglows?....Pages 261-275
Gravitational Waves and the Death-Spiral of Compact Binaries....Pages 277-287
Gravity in Anti-de-Sitter Space and Quantum Field Theory....Pages 289-299
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Black Hole Formation in Supernovae: Prospects of Unveiling Fallback Emission....Pages 301-315
Advanced Readout Configurations for the Gravitational Wave Detector AURIGA....Pages 317-331
Front Matter....Pages 333-333
Connections in Distributional Bundles and Field Theories....Pages 335-340
The Spectrum of Endstates of Spherical Gravitational Collapse....Pages 341-346
Quantum Zeno Effect and the Detection of Gravitomagnetism....Pages 347-351
Sagnac, Gclock Effect and Gravitomagnetism....Pages 353-360
Radiation from an Electric Charge....Pages 361-367
Trajectories for Relativistic Particles in an Electromagnetic Field....Pages 369-373
Front Matter....Pages 375-375
A Determination of any Physical Characteristics of Magnetic Monopole in Basis of Metrics of Curved Space-Time....Pages 377-381
Gravitational Waves from Colored Spinning Cosmic Strings....Pages 383-388
“Multiple Bending of Light Ray” Can Create Many Images for One Galaxy: In Our Dynamic Universe — A Computer Simulation....Pages 389-393
Front Matter....Pages 395-395
Recent Improvements on the EXPLORER Gravitational Wave Antenna....Pages 397-401
NAUTILUS Recent Results....Pages 403-408
The Low Frequency Facility, R&D Experiment of the Virgo Project....Pages 409-415
The Newton’s Gravitational Law....Pages 417-421
Measurement of Gravitational Interaction on mm Scale....Pages 423-426
Front Matter....Pages 427-427
Constraint Supersymmetry Breaking and Non-Perturbative Effects in String Theory....Pages 429-433
T-Dualization and Symmetry Breaking....Pages 435-439
A Theory of Quantum Gravity from First Principles....Pages 441-449
Spin Models, TQFTs and Their Hierarchical Structure....Pages 451-458
Front Matter....Pages 427-427
Quantum Closed Timelike Curves in General Relativity....Pages 459-463