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Fourteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting, The : On Recent Developments In Theoretical And Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics, And Relativistic Field Theories - Proceedings Of The Mg14 Meeting On General Relativity (In 4 Parts).

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bianchi, Massimo.
Other Authors: Jantzen, Robert T., Ruffini, Remo.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2017.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • PART A PLENARY TALKS
  • CONTENTS
  • Sponsors
  • Publications in this Series
  • Organizing Committees and Acknowledgements
  • Marcel Grossmann Awards
  • Preface
  • Local conformal symmetry in black holes, standard model, and quantum gravity
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Black Holes
  • 3. Local Conformal Symmetry
  • 4. Quantum Gravity and the Standard Model
  • 5. Indefinite Metric
  • 6. Deterministic Quantum Mechanics
  • References
  • Effective quantum gravity observables and locally covariant QFT
  • 1. Algebraic Approach to QFT
  • 2. Locally Covariant Quantum Field Theory
  • 3. Effective Quantum Gravity
  • 3.1. Outline of the approach
  • 3.2. Building models in pAQFT
  • 3.3. Gauge-invariant observables
  • 3.4. The role of deformation quantization
  • 3.5. Few words about Epstein-Glaser renormalization
  • 3.6. Background independence
  • 4. Conclusions and Outlook
  • References
  • Supersymmetry and inflation
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Minimal models for Inflation and Supersymmetry Breaking
  • 2.1. Sgoldstino Inflation
  • 2.2. D-term Inflation
  • 2.3. Other Models
  • 2.4. Nilpotent Inflation (sgoldstino-less models)
  • 3. Higher-curvature and standard Supergravity duals
  • 3.1. R + R2 Supergravity
  • 3.2. Scale-invariant R2 models
  • 3.3. Nilpotent curvatures and sgoldstino-less Supergravity duals
  • 4. Sgoldstino-less Models vs String Theory: Climbing Scalars
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • No-scale supergravity inflation: A bridge between string theory and particle physics?
  • 1. Cosmological Inflation
  • 2. Slow-Roll Inflationary Models
  • 3. Challenges for Inflationary Models
  • 4. The Starobinsky Model
  • 5. Higgs Inflation
  • 6. Inflation Cries Out for Supersymmetry and (No-Scale) Supergravity
  • 7. No-Scale Supergravity Models of Inflation
  • 8. A No-Scale Inflationary Model to Fit Them All.
  • 9. How Many e-Folds of Inflation, and How Does the Inflaton Decay?
  • 10. No-Scale Framework for Particle Physics and Dark Matter
  • 11. Summary
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • What are fuzzballs, and do they have to behave as firewalls?
  • 1. Early history
  • 1.1. What is a black hole?
  • 1.2. Hawking's puzzle
  • 1.3. The no-hair theorem
  • 1.4. The entropy of black holes
  • 2. The fuzzball paradigm
  • 2.1. Fuzzballs: beginnings
  • 2.2. The structure of fuzzballs
  • 3. The Bena-Warner microstate program
  • 4. The small corrections theorem
  • 5. Why is the semiclassical approximation violated?
  • 6. Fuzzball complementarity
  • 7. The firewall claim
  • 7.1. What kind of complementarity were AMPS addressing?
  • 7.1.1. The conflict of AMPS with the Bekenstein limit
  • 7.1.2. The conflict of the AMPS argument with causality
  • 8. Summary
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Pulsars as probes of gravity and fundamental physics
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Fundamental physics tested using radio astronomy
  • 2. A Simple and Clean Experiment: Pulsars and Their Timing
  • 2.1. The method
  • 2.2. The laboratories
  • 3. Pulsars as Gravitational Wave Detectors
  • 3.1. Status of the PTA efforts
  • 3.2. PTA science beyond detection
  • 4. Constraining PPN Parameters
  • 5. Binary Pulsars
  • 5.1. The Hulse-Taylor pulsar
  • 5.2. The double pulsar
  • 6. Constraining Alternative Theories
  • 7. Pulsar-Black Hole Systems
  • 7.1. Studying the super-massive black hole in the Galactic center
  • 8. Pulsars and an Image of Sgr A*
  • 9. Summary
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Explosions throughout the universe
  • 1. Swift - A Time Domain Observatory
  • 2. A Potpourri of High Energy Transients
  • 3. DG CVn Superflare
  • 4. RS Oph Nova
  • 5. V404 Cygni - Currently in Outburst
  • 6. SN 2008D Shock Breakout
  • 7. Sgr A∗ Flares.
  • 8. Swift J1644+57 - The First Jetted Tidal Disruption Event
  • 9. Short versus Long GRBs
  • 10. Short GRBs: Demographics
  • 11. Short GRBs: The Future
  • 12. Tools to Study the High-z Universe
  • 13. Conclusion
  • References
  • Understanding the engines behind cosmic explosions: Advice from Willem of Occam and T.H. White
  • 1. Willem of Occam vs. T.H. White
  • 2. Observed Diversity
  • 2.1. SNe
  • 2.2. GRBs
  • 3. Proposed Engines
  • 3.1. Core-collapse SNe
  • 3.2. GRBs
  • 4. Rates and Progenitors
  • 4.1. SNe
  • 4.2. GRBs
  • 5. Energetics
  • 5.1. SNe
  • 5.2. GRBs
  • 6. Durations and Diversity
  • 6.1. SNe
  • 6.2. GRBs
  • 7. Other Constraints
  • 7.1. SNe
  • 7.2. GRBs
  • 8. Modeling and the Big Picture
  • References
  • First stars, hypernovae, and superluminous supernovae
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Abundance Patters of Metal-Poor Stars
  • 2.1. Very metal-poor (VMP) stars
  • 2.2. Extremely metal-poor stars
  • 3. Supernova-GRB Connection
  • 3.1. GRB-supernova
  • 3.2. Non-GRB hypernovae
  • 3.3. XRF-supernovae
  • 3.3.1. Non-SN GRBs
  • 4. Nucleosynthesis in Jet-Induced Explosions
  • 4.1. Diversity of 56Ni mass
  • 4.2. Abundance patterns of C-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars
  • 5. Hypernova Models
  • 5.1. GRB, hypernovae and broad line supernovae
  • 5.2. Black holes versus neutron stars
  • 5.3. Hypernovae of Type II and Type Ib?
  • 6. Superluminous Supernovae
  • 6.1. Radioactive decay models
  • 6.1.1. SN 2007bi
  • 6.1.2. SN PTF12dam
  • 6.2. Magnetar driven supernovae
  • 6.3. Circumstellar interaction model
  • 6.3.1. Radiation hydrodynamical models
  • 6.3.2. Origin of circumstellar matter
  • References
  • Temperature of neutron stars
  • 1. Historical Background
  • 1.1. Pioneering days
  • 1.2. Einstein observatory and subsequent developments
  • 2. Thermal Evolution Models
  • 2.1. Neutrino emission processes
  • 2.2. Superfluid suppression
  • 2.4. Heating.
  • 2.5. Effect of envelope composition
  • 3. Recent Developments
  • 3.1. Discovery of hot neutron stars
  • 3.2. Recent thermal evolution models
  • 4. Most Recent Developments
  • 4.1. Soft X-ray transients in low mass X-ray binaries - another powerful method for constraining neutron star temperature
  • 4.2. Cassiopeia a (Cas A) neutron star and most recent thermal evolution models
  • 5. Some Related Problems
  • 5.1. The effect of global neutrality
  • 5.2. Neutron star equilibrium configurations with fully relativistic theory with strong, weak, electromagnetic and gravitational interactions
  • 5.3. Thermal evolution of magnetars
  • 6. Summary and Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • IceCube and the discovery of high-energy cosmic neutrinos
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Rationale of Neutrino Astronomy
  • 3. IceCube: The First Kilometer-Scale Neutrino Detector
  • 4. The Status of Neutrino Astronomy
  • 5. Closing in on the Sources
  • 6. The Road Ahead
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Particle dark matter direct detection
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The DM Particles Direct Detection
  • 3. The DM Model-Independent Results of DAMA
  • 4. Implications and Comparisons
  • 5. Future Perspectives for the DM Directionality Approach
  • 6. Conclusions
  • References
  • How relativistic astrophysics has transformed since the 1960s
  • 1. Extragalactic Astronomy and Cosmological Models
  • 2. The CMB and the Early Universe
  • 3. The Far Future
  • 4. Beyond the Horizon
  • 5. Concluding Comments
  • References
  • Perspectives from CTA in relativistic astrophysics
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The CTA Telescope Arrays
  • 3. The CTA Observatory
  • 4. CTA Key Science
  • 4.1. Sky surveys
  • 4.2. Particle acceleration
  • 4.3. Transient phenomena and active galaxies
  • 4.4. Fundamental physics and search for dark matter
  • 5. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • References.
  • The Planck mission: From observations to cosmological parameters
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Observations and scanning strategy
  • 3. Instrument performance and calibration
  • 4. Maps and power spectra
  • 5. Power spectra and likelihood
  • 6. Cosmology results
  • 7. Lensing
  • 8. Non-gaussianity
  • 9. Conclusions
  • References
  • The cosmic matrix in the 50th anniversary of relativistic astrophysics
  • 1. Introduction and the First Paradigm
  • 1.1. Crab pulsar: A neutron star and a black hole
  • 1.2. The Vela and CGRO satellites and GRBs
  • 1.3. The fireball model compared and contrasted with the fireshell model
  • 1.3.1. The fireball model
  • 1.3.2. The fireshell model
  • 2. Unveiling the GRB-SN Connection: The Second Paradigm
  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. The case of GRB 090618
  • 2.3. The emission process in Episode 1
  • 2.3.1. The time-resolved spectra and temperature variation
  • 2.3.2. The power-law decay of the black body temperature
  • 2.3.3. The radius of the emitting region
  • 2.4. The emission process in Episode 2
  • 2.4.1. The identification of the P-GRB
  • 2.4.2. The refinement of the P-GRB nature
  • 2.4.3. The prompt emission and the CBM cloud structure
  • 2.5. The emission process of Episode 3
  • 2.5.1. The late X-ray emission observed by swift/XRT
  • 2.5.2. "The golden sample"
  • 2.5.3. Episode 3 as a standard candle
  • 3. The GRB-SN and the IGC: The Second Paradigm
  • 3.1. IGC of a NS to a blackhole by a type Ib/c SN
  • 3.2. The accretion process of the SN ejecta onto the companion NS
  • 3.3. Reaching the critical mass of the accreting companion NS
  • 4. The Application of the IGC Scenario to GRB 090618
  • 4.1. The SN ejecta accretion onto the companion NS
  • 4.2. Inferences on the binary period
  • 4.3. The collapse time and the role of neutrinos
  • 5. Recent Highlights and the "Third Paradigm"
  • 6. Conclusions
  • References.
  • The binary systems associated with short and long gamma-ray bursts and their detectability.

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