At the frontier of spacetime : scalar-tensor theory, Bells inequality, Machs principle, exotic smoothness /: scalar-tensor theory, Bells inequality, Machs principle, exotic smoothness. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Torsten Asselmeyer-Maluga, editor.
• Editors: Asselmeyer-Maluga, Torsten
• Contents: 65 Years in and Around Relativity (C.H. Brans) -- Part I Scalar-Tensor Theories (Brans-Dicke Theory): Nonminimal Couplings in the Early Universe: Multifield Models of Inflation and the Latest Observations (D.I. Kaiser) -- A New Estimate of the Mass of the Gravitational Scalar Field for Dark Energy (Y. Fujii) -- Axion and dilaton + metric emerge jointly from an electromagnetic model universe with local and linear response behavior (F.W. Hehl) -- Gravitational theories with stable (anti- )de Sitter backgrounds (T. Biswas, A. Koshelev and A. Mazumdar) -- Rotating Boson Stars (E.W. Mielke) -- The Lambda-CDM Model is not a Universal Attractor of the Brans-Dicke Cosmology (I. Quiros) -- New Setting for Spontaneous Gauge Symmetry Breaking? (R. Jackiw and S.-Y. Pi) -- The Brans-Dicke theory and its experimental tests (M.P. McHugh) -- Part II Mach's Principle and Bell's inequality: Mach's Principle and the Origin of Inertia (B. Mashhoon) -- The Significance of Measurement Independence for Bell Inequalities and Locality (M.J.W. Hall) -- Part III Exotic Smoothness and Space-Time Models: Exotic Smoothness, Physics and Related Topics (J. Sladkowski) -- Model and Set-Theoretic Aspects of Exotic Smoothness Structures on R 4 (J. Król) -- Exotic Smoothness on Spheres (D. Randall) -- Smooth Quantum Gravity: Exotic Smoothness and Quantum Gravity (T. Asselmeyer-Maluga).
• Publisher Details: Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxvi, 308 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 530.11; Physics; Space and time; General relativity (Physics); SCIENCE -- Energy; SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General; SCIENCE -- Physics -- General; General relativity (Physics); Space and time; Science -- Cosmology; Science -- Physics; Relativity physics; History of science; Science -- Gravity; Gravity; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319312996; 3319312995; 3319312979; 9783319312972
• Related ISBNs: 9783319312972
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 4, 2016).
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