Approaches to Fundamental Physics An Assessment of Current Theoretic

This book presents contributions on particle theory, quantum field theory, general relativity, quantum gravity, string theory and cosmology. These represent the outcome of numerous discussions, taking place among the authors over a period of several years

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ecture Notes in Physics The series Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP), founded in 1969, reports new developments in physics research and teaching – quickly and informally, but with a high quality and the explicit aim to summarize and communicate current knowledge in an accessible way. Books published in this series are conceived as bridging material between advanced graduate textbooks and the forefront of research and to serve three purposes: • to be a compact and modern up-to-date source of reference on a well-defined topic • to serve as an accessible introduction to the field to postgraduate students and nonspecialist researchers from related areas • to be a source of advanced teaching material for specialized seminars, courses and schools Both monographs and multi-author volumes will be considered for publication. Edited volumes should, however, consist of a very limited number of contributions only. Proceedings will not be considered for LNP. Volumes published in LNP are disseminated both in print and in electronic formats, the electronic archive being available at springerlink.com. The series content is indexed, abstracted and referenced by many abstracting and information services, bibliographic networks, subscription agencies, library networks, and consortia. Proposals should be sent to a member of the Editorial Board, or directly to the managing editor at Springer: Christian Caron Springer Heidelberg Physics Editorial Department I Tiergartenstrasse 17 69121 Heidelberg / Germany [email protected]

Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu Erhard Seiler (Eds.)

Approaches to Fundamental Physics An Assessment of Current Theoretical Ideas

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Editors Ion-Olimpiu Stamatescu Forschungsstätte der Evangelischen Studiengemeinschaft (FESt) Schmeilweg 5 69118 Heidelberg, Germany and Institut für Theoretische Physik Universität Heidelberg Philosophenweg 16 69120 Heidelberg, Germany [email protected]

Erhard Seiler Max-Planck-Institut für Physik Werner-Heisenberg-Institut 80805 München, Germany [email protected]

I.-O. Stamatescu and E. Seiler (Eds.), Approaches to Fundamental Physics, Lect. Notes Phys. 721 (Springer, Berlin Heidelberg 2007), DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-71117-9

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