Cosmology and Gravitation, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1980
Spin, Torsion, Rotation, and Supergravity
NATO Science Series B: Series, Vol. 58

I: Theories with Torsion.- Generalities on Geometric Theories of Gravitation.- Four Lectures on Poincaré Gauge Field Theory.- The Macroscopic Limit of the Poincaré Gauge Field Theory of Gravitation.- QuasiClassical Limit of the Dirac Equation and the Equivalence Principle in the Riemann-Cartan Geometry.- Contracted Bianchi Identities and Conservation Laws in Poincaré Gauge Theories of Gravity.- The Gauge Symmetries of Gravitation.- The Motion of Test-Particles in Non-Riemannian Space-Time.- Torsion and Strong Gravity in The Realm of Elementary Particles and Cosmological Physics.- III: Supersymmetries, Twistors and Other Symmetry Groups.- The Fading World Point.- Superalgebras, Supergroups, and Geometric Gauging.- Four Lectures at the 1979 Erice School on Spin, Torsion, Rotation, and Supergravity.- Self Dual Fields.- An Introduction to Complex Manifolds.- A Brief Outline of Twistor Theory.- III: Experimental Relativity and Other Topics.- Experimental Gravitation with Measurements Made from Within a Planetary System.- Tests of General Relativity at the Quantum Level.- The Mass-Angular Momentum-Diagram of Astronomical Objects.- Bimetric General Relativity Theory.- Covariance and Quantum Physics-Need for a New Foundation of Quantum Theory?.- Relativistic Equations of Motion of “Spin Particles”.- Angular Momentum of Isolated Systems in General Relativity.- Isometries and General Solutions of Non-Linear Equations.- On the Visual Geometry of Spinors and Twistors.- Gravitation Photoproduction in Static Electromagnetic Fields and Some Astrophysical Applications.- Invariant Deduction of the Gravitational Equations from the Principle of Hamilton.- On a Generalization of the Notion of Reimann Curvature and Spaces with Torsion.- Comments on the Paper by Elie Cartan: Sur une Generalisation de la Notion de Courbure de Riemann et les Espaces a Torsion.