Quantum Mechanics of Fundamental Systems: The Quest for Beauty and Simplicity
In life and work, Claudio Bunster (formerly Teitelboim) prefers extreme challenges. Bunster, a physicist who contemplates brain-warping theories of space and time, returned to his native Chile from the United States precisely when most intellectuals would
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Quantum Mechanics of Fundamental Systems: The Quest for Beauty and Simplicity Claudio Bunster Festschrift
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Marc Henneaux Université Libre de Bruxelles Service Physique théorique et mathématique 1050 Bruxelles Campus de la Plaine Belgium [email protected] [email protected]
ISBN: 978-0-387-87498-2 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-87499-9
Jorge Zanelli Centro de Estudios Cientificos Valdivia, Chile [email protected]
e-ISBN: 978-0-387-87499-9
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Contents
Part 1
OPENING REMARKS
Greetings .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Opening Lecture .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Marc Henneaux Part 2
CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
On the Symmetries of Classical String Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Constantin P. Bachas Eddington–Born–Infeld Action and the Dark Side of General Relativity .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 M´aximo Ba˜nados Light-Cone Field Theory, Maximal Supersymmetric Theories and E7(7) in Light-Cone Superspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Lars Brink Strongly Hyperbolic Extensions of the ADM Hamiltonian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 J. David Brown Black Hole Entropy and the Problem of Universality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 S. Carlip Sources for Chern–Simons Theories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 Jos´e D. Edelstein and Jorge Zanelli The Emergence of Fermions and the E11 Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Franc¸ois Englert and Laurent Houart
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Why Does the Universe Inflate? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 S.W. Hawking Kac–Moody Algebras and the Structure of Cosmological Singularities: A New Light on the Belinskii–Khalatnikov–Lifshitz Analysis . . . . . . .
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