Cosmology, Quantum Gravity



Baryshev, Yurij V. "Field Theory of Gravitation: Desire and Reality." arXiv (12/1/99).
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/9912003
A retrospective analysis of the field theory of gravitation, describing gravitational field in the same way as other fields of matter in the flat space-time.

Bruni, Marco, Cristiano Germani, Roy Maartens. "Gravitational Collapse on the Brane." arXiv (8/3/01).
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/0108013

Cahill, Reginald T., Christopher M. Klinger.
"Bootstrap Universe from Self-Referential Noise." arXiv (8/7/97).
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9708013

Kirilyuk, Andrei P. "Universal Concept of Complexity by the Dynamic Redundance Paradigm: Causal Randomness, Complete Wave Mechanics, and the Ultimate Unification of Knowledge." arXiv (10/2/98).
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/physics/9806002
Author claims that the natural unity of being is recovered within a universal nonperturbative method leading to the dynamic redundance paradigm. He contends that the discovered dynamic redundance leads to the universal, reality-based concept of dynamic complexity and its permanently developing hierarchical structure, alias the world. Its lowest levels give the causally complete mechanics of dynamically quantized elementary fields, extending the double solution found by Louis de Broglie. One obtains a physically complete solution for the 'mysteries' of quantum mechanics, unifyng it with the extended, causal versions of relativity (emergent space and time), quantum and classical gravity (dynamical mass), field theory (electric charge and spin), particle physics, and cosmology.

Kogan, Ian I. "Multi(scale)gravity: A Telescope for the Micro-World." arXiv (8/24/01).
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0108220
A short review of modern status of multigravity, i.e. modification of gravity at both short and large distances is given.

Krauss, L. M., G. D. Starkman. "Life, the Universe, and Nothing: Life and Death in an Ever Expanding Universe." Los Alamos Archives (2/18/99).
http://xxx.lanl.gov/astro-ph/9902189
Ultimate Reality of Life in the Universe.


Luminet, Jean-Pierre. "Topology of the Universe: Theory and Observations." arXiv (5/19/99).
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/9901364

Mena, Guillermo. "Bases of Wormholes in Quantum Cosmology." arXiv (4/24/94).

http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/9404042
Shows that if the space of physical states spanned by the wormhole wave functions can be equipped with a Hilbert structure, such a Hilbert space must coincide with that of the Lorentzian gravitational system under consideration.

Mena, Guillermo. "Wormholes as Basis for the Hilbert Space in Lorentzian Gravity." arXiv (5/10/94).
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/9405027

Ne'eman, Yuval.
"Cosmological Surrealism: More than 'Eternal Reality' is Needed." arXiv (3/16/94).
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/hep-th/9403087
Inflationary Cosmology makes the universe "eternal" and provides for recurrent universe creation, ad infinitum—making it also plausible to assume that "our" Big Bang was also preceded by others, etc. However, GR tells us that in the "parent" universe's reference frame, the newborn universe's expansion will never start. Our picture of "reality" in spacetime has to be enlarged.


Solomons, Deon, Peter Dunsby, George Ellis. "No Bounce Behaviour in Kantowski-Sachs Cosmologies." arXiv (3/23/01).
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/gr-qc/0103087
Many cosmological scenarios envisage either a bounce of the universe at early times, or collapse of matter locally to form a black hole which re-expands into a new expanding universe region. Energy conditions preclude this happening for ordinary matter in general relativistic universes, but scalar or dilatonic fields can violate some of these conditions, and so could possibly provide bounce behaviour.


Turner, Michael S. "The Cosmology of Nothing." arXiv (3/28/97).
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/9703195
For more than seventy years physicists have appreciated that Nature's vacuum is far from empty. The discovery of the Lamb shift in Hydrogen provided dramatic verification of the reality of the quantum vacuum. The advent of gauge theories has led us to believe that the physics of the vacuum is even richer, with the possibility of instantons, vacuum phase transitions, vacuum defects (monopoles, domain walls, cosmic strings and nontopological solitons), vacuum energy, and degenerate vacua states (with different local realizations of the laws of physics). Cosmology offers a unique laboratory for exploring the "physics of nothing.''