String Theory and Fundamental Interactions: Gabriele Veneziano and Theoretical Physics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives / Edition 1

String Theory and Fundamental Interactions: Gabriele Veneziano and Theoretical Physics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives / Edition 1

by Maurizio Gasperini, Jnan Maharana
ISBN-10:
3540742328
ISBN-13:
9783540742326
Pub. Date:
01/08/2008
Publisher:
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
ISBN-10:
3540742328
ISBN-13:
9783540742326
Pub. Date:
01/08/2008
Publisher:
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
String Theory and Fundamental Interactions: Gabriele Veneziano and Theoretical Physics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives / Edition 1

String Theory and Fundamental Interactions: Gabriele Veneziano and Theoretical Physics: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives / Edition 1

by Maurizio Gasperini, Jnan Maharana

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Overview

This book has been prepared to celebrate the 65th birthday of Gabriele Veneziano and his retirement from CERN in September 2007. This reti- ment certainly will not mark the end of his extraordinary scientific career (in particular, he will remain on the permanent sta? of the Coll‘ ege de France in Paris), but we believe that this important step deserves a special celebration, and an appropriate recognition of his monumental contribution to physics. Our initial idea of preparing a volume of Selected papers of Professor Gabriele Veneziano, possibly with some added commentary, was dismissed when we realized that this format of book, very popular in former times, has become redundant today because of the full “digitalization” of all important physical journals, and their availability online in the electronic archives. We have thus preferred an alternative (and unconventional, but probably more effective) form of celebrating Gabriele’s birthday: a collection of new papers written by his main collaborators and friends on the various aspects of thoretical physics that have been the object of his research work, during his long and fruitful career.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783540742326
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date: 01/08/2008
Series: Lecture Notes in Physics , #737
Edition description: 2008
Pages: 974
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.06(d)

Table of Contents

Gabriele Veneziano: A Concise Scientific Biography and an Interview.- An Unpublished Draft by Gabriele Veneziano (1973): “Non-local Field Theory Suggested by Dual Models”.- Dual Resonance Models and String Theory.- The Birth of the Veneziano Model and String Theory.- The Birth of String Theory.- The Beginning of String Theory: A Historical Sketch.- The Little Story of an Algebra.- Perturbative QCD.- Parton Densities: A Personal Retrospective.- Infrared-sensitive Physics in QCD and in Electroweak Theory.- From QCD Lagrangian to Monte Carlo Simulation.- Fracture Functions.- Non-perturbative QCD.- Coherence and Incoherence in QCD Jets Dynamics (QCD Jets and Branching Processes).- The U(1)A Anomaly and QCD Phenomenology.- Planar Equivalence 2006.- Supersymmetric Guage Theories.- Instantons and Supersymmetry.- The Magnetic Monopoles Seventy-five Years Later.- String dualities and symmetries.- Novel Symmetries of String Theory.- Threshold Effects Beyond the Standard Model.- Dualities in String Cosmology.- Spontaneous Breaking of Space—Time Symmetries.- String/Quantum Gravity, Black Holes and Entropy.- The Information Paradox.- Cosmological Entropy Bounds.- Extremal Black Holes in Supergravity.- Expectation Values and Vacuum Currents of Quantum Fields.- String Cosmology.- Dilaton Cosmology and Phenomenology.- Relic Gravitons and String Pre-big-bang Cosmology.- Magnetic Fields, Strings and Cosmology.- Cosmological Singularities and a Conjectured Gravity/Coset Correspondence.- Brane Inflation: String Theory Viewed from the Cosmos.
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