Gravity and the Quantum (eBook)

J.S. Bagla is an astrophysicist specializing in cosmology and gravitational clustering in an expanding universe. His current interests are in galaxy formation and evolution with an emphasis on use of upcoming facilities for constraining models of galaxy formation.  Sunu Engineer is an astrophysicist specializing in cosmology and structure formation. His current research interests are in thermodynamic theories of gravity, computational physics and technology and the physics of music.

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.