Topics in mathematical physics, general relativity, and cosmology in honor of Jerzy Plebański proceedings of 2002 international conference, Cinvestav, Mexico City, 17-20 September 2002 (World Scientific, 2006)
Includes bibliographical references
pt. 1. Historical data. Jerzy Plebanski : the quest for new worlds / H. Garcia-Compean ... [et al.]. Pleasant memories with Jerzy Plebanski / D. Finley. My recollections of Jerzy Plebanski / A. Trautman. Working with Pleban / I. Robinson. List of Plebanski's publications --
- pt. II. Invited papers (proceedings part). Organizing committee. The higher-energy precursor of the AdS/CFT correspondence / X. Amador ... [et al.]. How black holes grow / A. Ashtekar. Some theorems related to the Jacobi variational principle of analytical dynamics / S.L. Bazanski. Horizon structure of Born-Infeld black hole / N. Breton. Space-time torsion contribution to quantum interference phases / A. Camacho & A. Macias. Squeezing operator and squeeze tomography / O. Castanos ... [et al.]. A producer of universes / R. Cordero & E. Rojas. Moyal star-product on a Hilbert space / G. Dito. Null-Kahler structures, symmetries and integrability / M. Dunajski & M. Przanowski. Helicity basis and parity / V.V. Dvoeglazov. Second order supersymmetry transformations in quantum mechanics / D.J. Fernandez C. & A. Ramos. Generalized symmetries for the sDiff(2) Toda equation / D. Finley & J.K. Mciver. Differential equations and Cartan connections / S. Frittelli ... [et al.].
- N = 2 String geometry and the heavenly equations / H. Garcia-Compean. Noncommutative topological and Einstein gravity from noncommutative SL(2, C) BF theory / H. Garcia-Compean ... [et al.]. Conservation laws, constants of the motion, and Hamiltonians / J. Goldberg. Electromagnetic wavelets as Hertzian pulsed beams in complex spacetime / G. Kaiser. Generalized k-deformations and deformed relativistic scalar fields on noncommutative Minkowski space / P. Kosinski ... [et al.]. Structure formation in the Lemaitre-Tolman cosmological model (a non-perturbative approach) / A. Krasinski & C. Hellaby. Ramond-Ramond fields in orientifold backgrounds and K-theory / O. Loaiza-Brito. Large N field theories, string theory and gravity / J. Maldacena. Yang-Mills type BRST and co-BRST algebra for Teleparallelism / E.W. Mielke & A.A. Rincon Maggiolo. The double role of Einstein's equations : as equations of motion and as vanishing energy-momentum tensor / M. Montesinos.
- Alternative elements in the Cayley-Dickson algebras / G. Moreno. Coherent state map and deformations of Moyal product / A. Odzijewicz. On uncertainty relations and states in deformation quantization / M. Przanowski & F.J. Turrubiates. On the Dirac-Infeld-Plebanski delta function / O. Rosas-Ortiz. Mathematical structures in perturbation quantum field theory / M. Rosenbaum. A note on the foundation of relativistic mechanics : covariant Hamiltonian general relativity / C. Rovelli. The Magnus series / L. Saenz & R. Suarez. Singular integral equation method for the construction of cylindrical wave solutions of the Einstein-Weyl equations / N.R. Sibgatullin, A.A. Garcia & V.S. Manko. Geometric POV-measures, pseudo-Kahlerian functions and time / M. Skulimowski. Teleparallelism, modified Born-Infeld nonlinearity and space-time as a micromorphic ether / J.J. Slawianowski. Einstein's intuition and the post-Newtonian approximation / J. Stachel. Deformation theory and physics model building / D.