Gravity and the Quantum : Pedagogical Essays on Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Quantum Gravity /
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Gravity and the Quantum : Pedagogical Essays on Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Quantum Gravity /

This book provides a compilation of in-depth articles and reviews on key topics within gravitation, cosmology and related issues. It is a celebratory volume dedicated to Prof. Thanu Padmanabhan ("Paddy"), the renowned relativist and cosmologist from IUCAA, India, on the occasion of his 60t...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Bagla, Jasjeet Singh (Editor), Engineer, Sunu (Editor)
Format: Online Book
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Series:Fundamental Theories of Physics, 187
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Table of Contents:
  • J. Alcaniz et al. Measuring baryon acoustic oscillations with angular two-point correlation function
  • C. M. Boily Resonant disruption of binary stars by a catalytic black hole
  • Rong-Gen Cai and Li-Ming Cao Mechanics of Apparent Horizon in Two Dimensional Dilaton Gravity
  • Sumanta Chakraborty Boundary Terms of the Einstein-Hilbert Action
  • Timothy Clifton and John Barrow Decay of the Cosmic Vacuum Energy
  • Naresh Dadhich Understanding General Relativity after 100 years: A matter of perspective
  • Tevian Dray Piecewise Conserved Quantities
  • Pankaj Joshi Self-Similarity and Criticality in Gravitational Collapse
  • Claus Kiefer Notes on semiclassical Weyl gravity
  • Dawood Kothawala Accelerated Observers, Thermal Entropy, and Spacetime Curvature
  • Donald Lynden-Bell A local stress tensor for gravity Fields
  • Michele Maggiore Nonlocal Infrared Modifications of Gravity: A Review
  • Ayan Mukhopadhyay Emergence of gravity and RG flow
  • S. Modak Modelling non-paradoxical loss of information in black hole evaporation
  • J.V. Narlikar Relativistic Paths : A Feynman Problem
  • Martin Rees Thoughts on 50 years in astrophysics and cosmology and on what comes next
  • Sudipta Sarkar Area Theorem: General Relativity and Beyond
  • Shankarnarayanan What Are the Atoms of Space Time?
  • Suprit Singh From Quantum to Classical in the Sky
  • T.P. Singh Classical and quantum: a conflict of interest
  • Lee Smolin Four principles for quantum gravity
  • L. Sriramkurar What do detectors detect?
  • Urjit A Yajnik Stability longevity and all that : false vacua and topological defects.