| Format | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780387985640 |
| Publication Date | 09/09/2007 |
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
| Manufacturer | Springer-verlag New York Inc. |
This collection of essays in honor of Engelbert Schucking spans the gamut of research in general relativity and presents a lively and personal account of current work in the field. Contributions include: E.L. Schucking: Jordan, Pauli, Politics, Brecht...and a Variable Gravitational Constant J.L. Anderson: Thomson Scattering in an Expanding Universe A.
Ashtekar & T.A. Schilling: Geometrical Formulation of Quantum Mechanics J. Baugh, D.R. Finkelstein, H. Saller, and Zhong Tang: General Covariance is Bose-Einstein Statistics S.L. Bazanski: The Split and Propagation of Light Rays in Relativity L. Bel: How to Define a Unique Vacuum in Cosmology P.G. Bergmann: EIH Theory and Noether's Theorem W.B.
Bonnor: The Static Cylinder in General Relativity C.H. Brahns: Gravity and the Tenacious Scalar Field D. Brill: The Cavendish Experiment in General Relativity Y. Choquet-Bruhat: Wave Maps in General Relativity T. Damour: General Relativty and Experiment J. Ehlers: Some Developments in Newtonian Cosmology G.F.R.
Ellis & H. van Elst: Deviation of Geodesics in FLRW Spacetime Geometries S. Frittelli & E.T. Newman: Poincar Pseudo-symmetries in Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes E.N. Glass: Taub Numbers and Asymptotic Invariants J.N. Goldberg: Second Class Constraints F.W. Hehl, A. Macias, E.W. Mielke, & Yu.N. Obukhov: On the Structure of the Energy-momentum and the Spin Currents in Dirac's Electron Theory A.
Komar: The Physical Reality of the Quantum Wave Function A. Krasinski: The Ultimate Extension of the Bianchi Classification for Rotating Dust Models M.A.H. MacCallum: On the Classification of the Real Four-dimensional Lie Algebras J.V. Narlikar: Spinning Universes in Newtonian Cosmology P. Nurowski, E.
Schucking, & A. Trautman: Relativistic Gravitational Fields with Close Newtonian Analogs I. Ozsvath: Working with Engelbert R. Penrose: Some Remarks on Twistor Theory A. Peres: Critique of the Wheeler-DeWitt Equation J.F. Plebanski & M. Przanowski: A New Version of the Heavenly Equation W. Rindler & I.
Robinson: A Plain Man's Guide to Bivectors, Biquarternion, and the Algebra and Geometry of Lorentz Transformations B. Schmidt: Leon Lichtenstein's Work on Rotating Fluids D.W. Sciama: Decaying Neutrinos and the Flattening of the Galactic Halo J.E.F. Skea: The Kasner Condition and Inhomogeneous Perfect Fluid Cosmologies E.A.
Spiegel: Gravitational Screening J. Stachel: On the Interpretation of the Einstein-Cartan Formalism A. Trautman: On Complex Structures in Physics C.V. Vishveshwara: The Englebert Experience: Pathways from the Past
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