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CONTENTS
The Marcel Grossmann Meetings — Publications in this Series and Sponsors . v
Organizing Committees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Marcel Grossmann Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Inaugural Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Marcel Grossmann Award Essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
PART A
PLENARY AND REVIEW TALKS
A Brief History of X-Ray Astronomy in Germany
Truemper, Joachim E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
On the Discovery of the Kerr metric
Kerr, Roy Patrick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chaos and Symmetry in String Cosmology
Damour, Thibault . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Hidden Symmetries, Cosmological Singularities and the
E10/K(E10) Sigma Model
Kleinschmidt, Axel; Nicolai, Herman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
The Nature of Generic Cosmological Singularities
Uggla, Claes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
QCD and String Theory
Klebanov, Igor R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
The Cosmic String Inverse Problem
Polchinski, Joseph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Loop Quantum Gravity: Four Recent Advances and a Dozen
Frequently Asked Questions
Ashtekar, Abhay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
String Theory Landscape and the Standard Model of Particle
Physics
Lust, Dieter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
The Status of the Virgo Gravitational Wave Detector
Bizouard, Marie-Anne; for the Virgo collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
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Analytical Modeling of Binary Black Holes Coalescence
Buonanno, Alessandra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Binary Pulsars and General Relativistic Effects
Kramer, Michael . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Space Astronometry and Relativity
Mignard, Francois; Klioner, Sergei A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Neutrino Astronomy 2006
Halzen, Francis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Dark Matter and Sterile Neutrinos
Biermann, Peter L.; Munyaneza, Faustin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Supercomputer Simulations of the Joint Formation and Evolution
of Galaxies and Quasars
Springel, Volker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
CMB Observations: From BOOMERanG to Planck . . . and Beyond
De Bernardis, Paolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
The Origins and the Early Evolution of Quasars and Supermassive
Black Holes
Djorgovski, S. George; Volonteri, Marta; Springel, Volker; Bromm,
Volker; Meylan, Georges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
On Gamma Ray Bursts
Ruffini, Remo; Bernardini, Maria Grazia; Bianco, Carlo Luciano;
Caito, Letizia; Chardonnet, Pascal; Cherubini, Christian; Dainotti,
Maria Giovanna; Fraschetti, Federico; Geralico, Andrea; Guida,
Roberto; Patricelli, Barbara; Rotondo, Michael; Rueda Hernandez,
Jorge Armando; Vereshchagin, Gregory; Xue, She-Sheng . . . . . . . . . 368
Passion for Precision
Theodor, Hansch W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 506
The Genesis of General Relativity
Renn, Juergen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532
Superposition of Fields of Two Reissner-Nordstrom Sources
Alekseev, George A.; Belinski, V.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
Quasiperiodic Oscillations due to Axisymmetric and Non-
axisymmetric Shock Oscillations in Black Hole Accretion
Chakrabarti, Sandip K.; Debnath, D.; Pal, P.S.; Nandi, A.; Sarkar,
R.; Samanta, M.M.; Wiita, P.J.; Ghosh, H.; Som, D. . . . . . . . . . . 569
Power Spectra of Black Holes (BH) and Neutron Stars (NS) as
a Probe of Hydrodynamical Structure of the Source: Diffusion
Theory and its Application to X-ray Observations of NS and
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BH Sources
Titarchuk, Lev; Shaposhnikov, Nikolai; Arefiev, Vadim . . . . . . . . . . 589
Quark Matter in Compact Stars: Astrophysical Implications and
Possible Signatures
Bombaci, Ignazio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 605
Gauge Gravity and Electroweak Theory
Hestenes, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 629
Black Holes in Higher Dimensions (Black Strings and Black Rings)
Kunz, Jutta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 648
Some Remarks on Microlensing Towards LMC and M31
Jetzer, Philippe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663
OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb — Gravity Reveals First Cool Rocky/Icy
Exoplanet
Dominik, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 670
Theoretical Gravitational Lensing — Beyond the Weak-Field
Small-Angle Approximation
Perlick, Volker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680
Nonsingular Collapse of Spherically Symmetric Charged Dust
Krasinski, Andrzej; Bolejko, Krzysztof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 700
Quantum Cosmology Standpoint
Vargas Moniz, Paulo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 708
Gamma Ray Burst Host Galaxies and the Link to Star-Formation
Fynbo, Johan P.U.; Hjorth, Jens; Malesani, Daniele; Sollerman,
Jesper; Watson, Darach J.; Jakobsson, Pall; Gorosabel, Javier;
Jaunsen, Andreas O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 726
Gamma-Ray Bursts with and without Supernova Fireworks
Della Valle, Massimo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 736
Talking about Singularities
Cotsakis, Spiros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758
Time Machines and Quantum Theory
Hadley, Mark J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 778
Slowly and Rigidly Rotating Perfect Fluid Balls of Petrov Type D
Bradley, Michael; Eriksson, Daniel; Fodor, Gyula; Racz, Istvan . . . . . . 795
Numerical Wave Optics and the Lensing of Gravitational Waves
by Globular Clusters
Moylan, Andrew J.; McClelland, David E.; Scott, Susan M.;
Searle, Antony C.; Bicknell, Geoff V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 807
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Inflation, Bifurcations of Nonlinear Curvature Lagrangians and
Dark Energy
Mielke, Eckehard W.; Kusmartsev, Fjodor V.; Schunck, Franz E. . . . . . 824
Virgo Data Analysis for C6 and C7 Engineering Runs
Cuoco, Elena et al. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 844
Leopold Ernst Halpern and the Generalization of General
Relativity
Overduin, James M.; Plendl, Hans S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 870
Post-Newtonian Approximations, Compact Binaries, and Strong
Field Tests of Gravity
Blanchet, Luc; Grishchuk, L.P.; Schafer, Gerhard . . . . . . . . . . . . 881
Tests of Lorentz Symmetry in the Photon Sector
Herrmann, Sven; Senger, Alexander; Moehle, Katharina;
Kovalchuk, Evgeny; Peters, Achim; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 895
OPTIS – High Precision Test of Special and General Relativity in
Space
Laemmerzahl, Claus; Dittus, Hansjorg; Hackmann, Eva;
Scheithauer, Silvia; Peters, Achim; Schiller, Stephan . . . . . . . . . . 905
Testing Special and General Relativity: Clocks and Trajectories
Dittus, Hansjorg; Lammerzahl, Claus; Peters, Achim;
Salomon, Christophe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 916
Laboratory Limits for Temporal Variations of Fundamental
Constants: An Update
Peik, Ekkehard; Lipphardt, Burghard; Schnatz, Harald; Tamm,
Christian; Weyers, Stefan; Wynands, Robert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 941
Some Old and Some New Opportunities for Quantum Gravity
Phenomenology
Amelino-Camelia, Giovanni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 952
Visualization of Relativistic Effects
Ruder, Hanns; Nollert, Hans-Peter; Muller, Thomas; Borchers, Marc . . . 972
PART B
PARALLEL SESSIONS
• Dark Matter
Chairperson: Biermann, Peter
Impact of Dark Matter on Reionization and Heating
Mapelli, Michela; Ripamonti, Emanuele . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 979
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Impact of Dark Matter Decays and Annihilations on Structure
Formation
Ripamonti, Emanuele; Mapelli, Michela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 982
Thermal and Chemical Evolution of the Primordial Clouds in
Warm Dark Matter Models with keV Sterile Neutrinos in One-
Zone Approximation
Stasielak, Jaroslaw; Biermann, Peter L.; Kusenko, Alexander . . . . . . . 985
Restrictions on Sterile Neutrino Parameters from Astrophysical
Observations
Ruchayskiy, Oleg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 988
Upper Limits on Density of Dark Matter in Solar System
Khriplovich, Iosif; Pitjeva, Elena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 991
The Observed Properties of Dark Matter on Small Astrophysical
Scales
Gilmore, Gerard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 994
Is Dark Matter Futile on the Brane?
Gergely, Laszlo A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 997
Direct X-Ray Constraints on Sterile Neutrino Warm Dark Matter
Watson, Casey R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1000
Limits on the Dark Matter Particle Mass from Black Hole Growth
in Galaxies
Munyaneza, Faustin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1003
Dark Matter: The Case of Sterile Neutrino
Shaposhnikov, Mikhail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1006
• Neutrino Masses: Experimental
Chairperson: Drexlin, Guido
Neutrino Background, Diffuse Backgrounds and CMB: Is the
Picture Consistent?
Popa, Lucia Aurelia; Vasile, Ana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019
Constraining the Cosmological Lepton Asymmetry through Cosmic
Microwave Background Observations
Lattanzi, Massimiliano; Ruffini, Remo; Vereshchagin, Gregory V. . . . . . 1022
Possible Neutrino-Antineutrino Oscillation under Gravity and its
Consequences
Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1025
How Gravity Can Distinguish Between Dirac and Majorana
Neutrinos
Singh, Dinesh; Mobed, Nader; Papini, Giorgio . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1028
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• Cosmic Rays
Chairperson: Schlickeiser, Reinhard
Anisotropies of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays
Serpico, Pasquale D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1033
Recent Progress in Describing Cosmic Ray Transport
Tautz, Robert C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1036
Propagation of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays: Towards a New
Astronomy
Mattei, Alvise; Chardonnet, P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1039
• Astrophysics of Neutron Stars and Black Holes: Observations
Chairperson: Pian, Elena
Extragalactic X-Ray Jets
Worrall, Diana M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1045
Initial Results from the Suzaku Satellite
Dotani, Tadayasu; The Suzaku Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1048
Soft Gamma Repeaters and Magnetars
Hurley, Kevin C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1051
• Theoretical Models of Observations from Black Hole Candidates
Chairperson: Chakrabarti, Sandip K.
Epicyclic Frequencies and Resonant Phenomena Near Black Holes:
The Current Status
Aliev, Alikram N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1057
Humpy LNRF-Velocity Profiles in Accretion Discs Orbiting
Rapidly Rotating Kerr Black Holes
Stuchlık, Zdenek; Slany, Petr; Torok, Gabriel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1060
Standing Shocks in Pseudo-Kerr Geometry
Mondal, Soumen; Chakrabarti, Sandip K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063
Properties of Accretion Shock Waves in Viscous Flows with
Cooling Effects
Das, Santabrata; Chakrabarti, Sandip K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1066
Model of Radiating Annuli near Black Holes for Iron Kα Line
Profile Interpretations
Zakharov, Alexander F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1069
QPOs due to Centrifugally Supported Shocks around Stellar-Mass
and Supermassive Black Holes
Okuda, Toru; Teresi, Vincenzo; Molteni, Diego . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1072
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Observing the Flares of Sgr A* with the Very Large Telescope
Interferometer
Paumard, Thibaut; Muller, Thomas; Genzel, Reinhard; Eisen-
hauser, Frank; Gillessen, Stefan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1075
Simulating VLBI Images of Sgr A*
Noble, Scott C.; Leung, Po Kin; Gammie, Charles F.; Book, Laura G. . . . 1078
• Astrophysical Black Holes
Chairperson: Chakrabarti, Sandip K.
Astrophysical Black Holes — Do They Have Boundary Layers?
Chakrabarti, Sandip K.; Ghosh, Himadri; Som, Debopam . . . . . . . . . 1085
Secondary Perturbation Effects in Keplerian Accretion Disks:
Elliptical Instability
Mukhopadhyay, Banibrata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1098
Gravitational Collapse of Population III Stars
Suwa, Yudai; Takiwaki, Tomoya; Kotake, Kei; Sato, Katsuhiko . . . . . . 1101
Near-Infrared Observations of Sagittarius A*
Trippe, Sascha; Paumard, Thibaut; Gillessen, Stefan; Otto,
Thomas; Eisenhauser, Frank; Martins, Fabrice; Genzel, Reinhard . . . . . 1104
Long-Term Monitoring of the Hard X-Ray/Gamma-Ray Emission
from Galactic Black Hole with BATSE
Case, Gary L.; Anzalone, Evan; Cherry, Michael L.; Rodi, James
C.; Ling, James C.; Radocinski, Robert G; Wells, Derek; Wheaton,
William A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1107
Marginally Stable Thick Discs Orbiting Kerr-de Sitter Black Holes
Slany, Petr; Stuchlık, Zdenek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1110
Black Holes in Scalar Field or Quintessential Cosmology
Harada, Tomohiro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1113
A New Solution for Einstein Field Equation in General Relativity
Mousavi, Sadegh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1116
Pseudo-Kerr Geometry
Mondal, Soumen; Chakrabarti, Sandip K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1119
Extreme Gravitational Lensing by Supermassive Black Holes
Bozza, Valerio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1122
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• Spectral and Timing Appearances of the Galactic and
Extragalactic Black Holes
Chairperson: Titarchuk, Lev
Physical Characteristics of XTE J1650-500 and GRS 1915+105
with BeppoSAX
Montanari, Enrico; Titarchuk, Lev; Frontera, Filippo . . . . . . . . . . 1127
Spectral and Timing Properties of Magnetized Advective Flows
with Standing Shocks
Mandal, Samir; Chakrabarti, Sandip K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1130
Estimating Black Hole Masses in ULXs
Soria, Roberto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1133
• Extreme Properties of Neutron Stars: Observations and Theory
Chairperson: Mendez, Mariano
Equation of State of Dense Matter in Neutron Stars
Cerny, Slavomır; Stone, Jirina, Rıkovska; Stuchlık, Zdenek;
Hledık, Stanislav . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1139
Detectability of Gravitational Waves from the r-Mode Instability
in Newly-Born Neutron Stars
Sa, Paulo M.; Tome, Brigitte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1142
X-Ray Dim Isolated Neutron Stars: A Review of the Latest Timing
and Spectral Properties
Zane, Silvia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1145
X-Ray Observations of Neutron Stars and the Equation of State
at Very High Densities
Truemper, Joachim E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1148
Eigenmodes of Rapidly Rotating Neutron Stars
Boutloukos, Stratos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1152
Parameter Space Study of Magnetohydrodynamic Flows Around
Magnetized Compact Objects
Das, Santabrata; Chakrabarti, Sandip K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1155
Gravitational Radiation from Accreting Millisecond Pulsars
Vigelius, Matthias; Payne, Donald; Melatos, Andrew . . . . . . . . . . 1158
Dynamical Stability of Fluid Spheres in Spacetimes with a Nonzero
Cosmological Constant
Hledık, Stanislav; Stuchlık, Zdenek; Mrazova, Kristina . . . . . . . . . . 1161
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• Strange Stars
Chairperson: Usov, Vladimir
Strangelets in Cosmic Rays
Madsen, Jes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1167
Can Strange Stars be Distinguished from Neutron Stars?
Harko, Tiberiu; Cheng, Kwong Sang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1177
Pair Winds in Schwarzschild Spacetime with Application to
Strange Stars
Aksenov, Alexey, G.; Milgrom, Mordehai; Usov, Vladimir, V. . . . . . . . 1180
Evidence for White Dwarfs with Strange-Matter Cores
Mathews, Grant J.; Suh, In-Saeng; Lan, Nguyen Quynh; Otsuki,
Kaori; Weber, Fridolin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1183
• Thermal Behavior of Compact Stars
Chairperson: Page, Dany
Magnetars: Internal Heating and Energy Budget
Yakovlev, Dmitry G.; Kaminker, Alexander D.; Potekhin, Alexan-
der Y.; Shternin, Peter S.; Chabrier, Gilles; Shibazaki, Noriaki . . . . . . 1189
Trapping of Neutrinos in Extremely Compact Neutron Stars
Stuchlık, Zdenek; Urbanec, Martin; Torok, Gabriel;
Hledık, Stanislav; Hladık, Jan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1192
A Self-Consistent Model of the Isolated Neutron Star RX J0720.4-
3125
Miralles, Juan A.; Pons, Jose A.; Perez-Azorin, J. Fernando;
Miniutti, Giovanni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1195
kHz QPO Pairs Expose the Neutron Star of Circinus X-1
Boutloukos, Stratos; van der Klis, Michiel; Altamirano, Diego;
Klein Wolt, Marc; Wijnands, Rudy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1198
Neutron Star Atmospheres and X-Ray Spectra
Kundt, Wolfgang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1201
• Alternative Theories (A)
Chairperson: Schmidt, Hans-Juergen
Anisotropically Inflating Universes
Hervik, Sigbjørn; Barrow, John D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1207
Thick Brane Solution with Two Scalar Fields
Dzhunushaliev, Vladimir; Schmidt, Hans-Juergen; Myrzakulov,
Kairat; Myrzakulov, Ratbay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1210
Shear Dynamics in Bianchi I Cosmologies with Rn-Gravity
Leach, Jannie A.; Dunsby, Peter K.S.; Carloni, Sante . . . . . . . . . . 1213
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Spontaneous Lorentz Violation, Gravity and Nambu–Goldstone
Modes
Bluhm, Robert; . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1217
Spontaneous Lorentz Breaking, Nambu-Goldstone Modes, and
Gravity
Potting, Robertus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1220
The Significance of Matter Coupling in f(R) Gravity
Sotiriou, Thomas P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1223
Constraining Alternative Theories of Gravity with the Energy
Conditions
Perez Bergliaffa, Santiago Esteban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1226
An f(R) Gravitation for Galactic Environments
Sobouti, Yousef . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1230
Causality and Superluminal Fields
Bruneton, Jean-Philippe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1233
Gravitation as a Vacuum Nonlinear Electrodynamics Effect
Chernitskii, Alexander A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1236
Asymptotic Flatness and Birkhoff’s Theorem in Higher-Derivative
Theories of Gravity
Clifton, Timothy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1239
Cosmological Model with a Born-infield Type Scalar Field
Kerner, Richard; Serie, Emmanuel; Troisi, Antonio . . . . . . . . . . . 1242
A Teleparallel Representation of the Weyl Lagrangian
Vassiliev, Dmitri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1245
Nonlinear Supersymmetric General Relativity
Shima, Kazunari; Tsuda, Motomu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1248
Black Hole Solutions in N > 4 Gauss-Bonnet Gravity
Alexeyev, Stanislav O.; Popov, Nikolai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1251
Electrostatics and Confinement in Einstein’s Unified Field Theory
Antoci, Salvatore; Liebscher, Dierck-Ekkehard; Mihich, Luigi . . . . . . . 1254
Galactic Disks in Theories with Yukawian Gravitational Potential
de Araujo, Jose Carlos N.; Miranda, Oswaldo D. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1257
On the Field Theoretic Description of Gravitation
Nieuwenhuizen, Theo M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1260
De Sitter Stability in Theories with Second Order Curvature Terms
Toporensky, Alexey V.; Tretyakov, Petr V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1263
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Basic Relations of a Unified Theory of Electrodynamics, Quantum
Mechanics, and Gravitation
Ostermann, Peter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1266
Physical Interpretation and Viability of Various Metric Nonlinear
Gravity Theories
Soko lowski, Leszek M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1269
• Alternative Theories (B)
Chairperson: Hammond, Richard
Are Active and Passive Electric Charges Equal?
Laemmerzahl, Claus; Macias, Alfredo; Muller, Holger . . . . . . . . . . 1275
Charged Fluid Dynamics in Scalar-Tensor Theories of Gravity
with Torsion
Wang, Chih-Hung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1278
Validation of the Weak Equivalence Principle in a Spatially-VSL
Gravitation Model
Broekaert, Jan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1281
• Higher Dimensional Theories
Chairperson: Coley, Alan
Exact Solution of the 5D Space-Time-Matter Universe and Their
Implications
Fukui, Takao . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1287
Hamiltonian Theory of Brane-World Gravity
Kovacs, Zolton; Gergely, Laszlo A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1290
Casimir Force Test of a 6D Brane World
Linares, Roman; Morales-Tecotl, Hugo A.; Pedraza, Omar . . . . . . . . 1293
Electro-Weak Model within a 5-Dimensional Lorentz Group
Theory
Lecian, Orchidea Maria; Montani, Giovanni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1296
Spacetimes with Constant Scalar Invariants
Hervik, Sigbjørn; Coley, A.A.; Pelavas, Nicos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1299
Higher Dimensional VSI Spacetimes and Supergravity
Fuster, Andrea; Pelavas, Nicos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1302
VSI & VSIi Spacetimes in Higher Dimensions
Pravdova, Alena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1305
The Electro-Weak Model as a Phenomenological Issue of
Multidimensions
Cianfrani, Francesco; Montani, Giovanni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1308
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Hamiltonian Formulation of the 5-D Kaluza-Klein Model and
Test-Particle Motion
Lacquaniti, Valentino; Montani, Giovanni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1311
Electromagnetism and Perfect Fluids Interplay in Multidimen-
sional Spacetimes
Mitskievich, Nikolai V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1314
Torsion Induces Gravity
Aros, Rodrigo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1317
Final Fate of Higher-Dimensional Spherical Dust Collapse in
Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity
Maeda, Hideki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1320
Classification of the Weyl Tensor in Higher Dimensions and its
Applications
Pravda, Vojtech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1323
• Geometric Calculus in Gravity Theory
Chairperson: Hestenes, David
Geometrical and Kinematical Aspects of Rindler Observers
Romero, Carlos; Brasileiro Formiga, Jansen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1329
On the Zeros of Spinor Fields and an Orthonormal Frame Gauge
Condition
Nester, James M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1332
New Special Solutions of the Ricci Flow Equation in Two Dimen-
sions Using a Linearization Approach
Visinescu, Anca; Visinescu, Mihai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1335
• Black Hole and Pair Creation in Strong Fields
Chairperson: Greiner, Walter
Pair Creation in Inhomogeneous Fields
Schubert, Christian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1341
Monopole Decay in a Variable External Field
Monin, Alexander K.; Zayakin, Andrey V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1346
World-Making with Extended Gravity Black Holes for Cosmic
Natural selection in the Multiverse Scenario
Barrau, Aurelien . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1349
Neutral Nuclear Core vs Super Charged One
Rotondo, Michael; Ruffini, Remo; Xue, She-Sheng . . . . . . . . . . . . 1352
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• Black Holes in Higher Dimensions (Black Rings and Black Strings)
Chairperson: Kunz, Jutta
Gravitational Perturbations of Higher Dimensional Rotating Black
Holes
Kunduri, Hari K.; Lucietti, James; Reall, Harvey S. . . . . . . . . . . . 1359
Gravitating Non-Abelian Solitons and Hairy Black Holes in Higher
Dimensions
Volkov, Mikhail S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1379
Derivation of the Dipole Black Ring Solutions
Yazadjiev, Stoytcho S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1397
Charged Rotating Black Holes in Higher Dimensions
Kunz, Jutta; Navarro-Lerida, Francisco; Viebahn, Jan;
Maison, Dieter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1400
Solitonic Generation of Solutions Including Five-Dimensional
Black Rings and Black Holes
Mishima, Takashi; Iguchi, Hideo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1403
Kaluza-Klein Black Hole with Gravitational Charge in Einstein-
Gauss-Bonnet Gravity
Maeda, Hideki; Dadhich, Naresh K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1406
Higher Dimensional Rotating Charged Black Holes
Aliev, Alikram N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1409
Perturbative Stability and Absorption Cross-Section in String
Corrected Black Holes
Moura, Filipe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1412
Ultrarelativistic Boost of the Black Ring
Ortaggio, Marcello; Krtous, Pavel; Podolsky, Jirı . . . . . . . . . . . . 1415
The Results of a New Solution of the Einstein Field Equations in
General Relativity and Black Hole New Movement
Mousavi, Sadegh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1418
Hamiltonian Treatment of Static and Collapsing Spherically
Symmetric Charged Thin Shells in Lovelock Gravity
Dias, Goncalo A.S.; Lemos, Jose P.S.; Gao, Sijie . . . . . . . . . . . . 1421
New Nonuniform Black String Solutions
Kleihaus, Burkhard; Kunz, Jutta; Radu, Eugen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1424
Lovelock Gravity and The Counterterm Method
Bostani, Neda; Dehghani, Mohammad Hossein; Sheykhi, Ahmad . . . . . 1427
LG(Landau-Ginzburg) in GL(Gregory-Laflamme)
Kol, Barak; Sorkin, Evgeny . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1431
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Causal Structure Around Spinning 5-Dimensional Cosmic Strings
Slagter, Reinoud Jan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1434
Short Distances, Black Holes, and TeV Gravity
Agullo, Ivan; Navarro-Salas, Jose; Olmo, Gonzalo J. . . . . . . . . . . 1437
Black String Solutions with Negative Cosmological Constant
Mann, Robert; Radu, Eugen; Stelea, Cristian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1440
Matched Asymptotic Expansion for Caged Black Holes
Gorbonos, Dan; Kol, Barak . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1443
Perturbatively Non-Uniform Charged Black Strings: A New Stable
Phase
Miyamoto, Umpei; Kudoh, Hideaki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1446
• Analog Models of and for General Relativity
Chairperson: Volovik, Grigory
From Quantum Hydrodynamics to Quantum Gravity
Volovik, Grigory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1451
Looking Beyond the Horizon
Babichev, Eugeny; Mukhanov, Viatcheslav; Vikman, Alexander . . . . . . 1471
A Dielectric Analogue Model of the Kerr Equatorial Plane
Rosquist, Kjell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1475
Bose-Einstein Condensates and QFT in Curved Space-Time
Fagnocchi, Serena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1479
Electromagnetic Light Rays in Local Dielectrics
De Lorenci, Vitorio A.; Klippert, Renato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1482
Scattering Problems on Rotating Acoustic Black Holes
Cherubini, Christian; Filippi, Simonetta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1485
• Black Hole Thermodynamics
Chairperson: Khriplovich, Iosif
Thermodynamical Properties of Hairy Black Holes with Cosmo-
logical Constant
Nadalini, Mario; Vanzo, Luciano; Zerbini, Sergio . . . . . . . . . . . . 1491
Radiation of Quantized Black Holes. Is it Observable?
Khriplovich, Iosif . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1494
Effects of Quantized Fields on the Spacetime Geometries of Static
Spherically Symmetric Black Holes
Anderson, Paul R.; Binkley, Mathew; Calderon, Hector; Hiscock,
William A.; Mottola, Emil; Vaulin, Ruslan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1497
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Thermodynamic Quantities of Kaluza-Klein Black Holes with
Squashed Horizons
Kurita, Yasunari; Ishihara, Hideki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1500
Hawking Radiation and Black Hole Thermodynamics
Page, Don N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1503
Entropy from Conformal Horizon States in D-Dimensional Spheri-
cal, Toroidal, and Hyperbolic Anti-de Sitter Black Holes
Lemos, Jose P.S.; Dias, Goncalo A.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1508
Thermodynamic Geometries of Black Holes
Aman, Jan E.; Bengtsson, Ingemar; Pidokrajt, Narit; Ward, John . . . . 1511
• Alternative Black Hole Models
Chairperson: Mazur, Pawel O.
On Quantum Effects in the Vicinity of Would-be Horizons
Marecki, Piotr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1517
Stable Dark Energy Stars: An Alternative to Black Holes?
Lobo, Francisco S.N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1520
Horizon News Function and Quasi-Local Energy-Momentum Flux
Near Black Hole
Wu, Yu-Huei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1523
Black Holes or Eternally Collapsing Objects?
Mitra, Abhas; Glendenning, Norman K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1526
The Proposed Black Holes Around Us
Kundt, Wolfgang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1529
Gravastars and Bifurcation in Quasistationary Accretion
Malec, Edward; Roszkowski, Krzysztof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1537
• Numerical Relativity, Black Hole Collisions, and Algebraic
Computation
Chairperson: Husa, Sascha
Lifetime of Oscillons
Fodor, Gyula; Forgacs, Peter; Grandclement, Philippe; Racz, Istvan . . . . 1543
A Virtual Trip to the Schwarzschild-de Sitter Black Hole
Bakala, Pavel; Hledık, Stanislav; Stuchlık, Zdenek; Truparova
Kamila; Cermak, Petr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1546
Similarity Solutions Using DESOLV
Vu, Khai T.; Butcher, J.; Carminati, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1549
xTensor : A Free Fast Abstract Tensor Manipulator
Martın-Garcıa, Jose M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1552
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Tensor Computer Algebra
Martın-Garcıa, Jose M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1555
• Simulations of Relativistic Flows and Compact Objects
Chairperson: Font, Jose A.
Relativistic MHD Simulations and Synthetic Synchrotron Emission
Maps: A Diagnostic Tool for Pulsar Wind Nebulae
Del Zanna, Luca; Volpi, Delia; Amato, Elena; Bucciantini,
Nicolo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1561
GRMHD Simulations of Jet Formation with RAISHIN
Mizuno, Yosuke; Nishikawa, Ken-Ichi; Koide, Shinji; Hardee,
Philip; Fishman, Gerald J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1564
Standing Shocks in Pseudo-Kerr Geometry
Mondal, Soumen; Chakrabarti, Sandip K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1567
Evolving Relativistic Fluid Spacetimes Using Pseudospectral
Methods and Finite Differencing
Duez, Matthew D.; Kidder, Lawrence E.; Teukolsky, Saul A. . . . . . . . 1570
3D Relativistic MHD Simulation of a Tilted Accretion Disk Around
a Rapidly Rotating Black Hole
Fragile, P. Chris; Anninos, Peter; Blaes, Omer M.; Salmonson,
Jay D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1573
Fragmentation of General Relativistic Quasi-Toroidal Polytropes
Zink, Burkhard Sebastian; Stergioulas, Nikolaos; Hawke, Ian; Ott,
Christian D.; Schnetter, Erik; Muller, Ewald . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1576
Adaptive Mesh Refinement and Relativistic MHD
Neilsen, David; Hirschmann, Eric W.; Anderson, Matthew;
Liebling, Steven L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1579
3-D GRMHD and GRPIC Simulations of Disk-Jet Coupling and
Emission
Nishikawa, Ken-Ichi; Mizuno, Yosuke; Watson, Michael; Hardee,
Philip; Fuerst, Steve; Wu, Kinwah; Fishman, Gerald J. . . . . . . . . . 1582
Resistive General Relativistic MHD Simulations of Jet Formation
Around Kerr Black Hole
Koide, Shinji; Shibata, Kazunari; Kudoh, Takahiro . . . . . . . . . . . 1585
Making Up a Short GRB: The Bright Fate of Mergers of Compact
Objects
Aloy, Miguel Angel; Mimica, Petar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1589
Spacetime Modes of Rapidly Rotating Relativistic Stars
Stergioulas, Nikolaos; Kokkotas, Kostas D.; Hawke, Ian . . . . . . . . . 1592
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• Dynamics of Compact Binaries
Chairperson: Rezzolla, Luciano
Reducing Orbital Eccentricity in Binary Black Hole Simulations
Pfeiffer, Harald P.; Brown, Duncan A.; Kidder, Lawrence E.;
Lindblom, Lee; Lovelace, Geoffrey; Scheel, Mark A. . . . . . . . . . . . 1597
Negative Komar Masses in Regular Stationary Spacetimes
Ansorg, Marcus; Petroff, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1600
Constraint Relaxation
Marronetti, Pedro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1603
Relativistic Hydrodynamic Simulations of Multiple Orbits for
Close Neutron Star Binaries
Mathews, Grant J.; Haywood, J. Reese; Wilson, James R. . . . . . . . . 1606
The Final Fate of Binary Neutron Star Systems: What Happens
After the Merger?
Duez, Matthew D.; Liu, Yuk Tung; Shapiro, Stuart L.; Stephens,
Branson C.; Shibata, Masaru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1609
Head-On Collisions of Different Initial Data
Sperhake, Ulrich; Brugmann, Bernd; Gonzalez, Jose A.; Hannam,
Mark D.; Husa, Sascha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1612
Tearing instability in Relativistic Magnetically Dominated Plasmas
Barkov, Maxim V.; Komissarov, Serguei S.; Lyutikov, Maxim . . . . . . . 1615
• Black Hole Collisions
Chairperson: Lousto, Carlos
Black Hole Bremsstrahlung in the Nonlinear Regime of General
Relativity
Oliveira, Henrique P.; Soares, I. Damiao; Tonini, Eduardo V. . . . . . . 1621
Hyperboloidal Foliations with I -Fixing in Spherical Symmetry
Zenginoglu, Anil; Husa, Sascha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1624
High-Order Perturbations of a Spherical Spacetime
Brizuela, David; Martın-Garcıa, Jose Marıa; Mena Marugan,
Guillermo A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1627
Analytic Solutions of the Linearized Einstein Equations Used to
Test and Develop a Characteristic Code
Bishop, Nigel T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1630
The Kerr Metric in Bondi-Sachs Form
Venter, Liebrecht R.; Bishop, Nigel T. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1633
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Binary Black Hole Merger Waveforms in the Extreme Mass Ratio
Limit
Damour, Thibault; Nagar, Alessandro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1636
• CMB Theory
Chairperson: Dore, Olivier
CMB Anomalies from Relic Anisotropy
Gumrukcuoglu, A. Emir; Contaldi, Carlo, R.; Peloso, Marco . . . . . . . 1641
Can Extragalactic Foregrounds Explain the Large-Angle CMB
Anomalies?
Rakic, Aleksandar; Rasanen, Syksy; Schwarz, Dominik J. . . . . . . . . 1647
A New Realization of a Low Quadrupole Universe
Lee, Wo-Lung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1653
Perturbations of Dark Sectors from the CMB
Bashinsky, Sergei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1659
• CMB Experiment Space
Chairperson: Masi, Silvia
Observations of the CMB and Galactic Foregrounds at 11–17 GHz:
The COSMOSOMAS Experiment
Hildebrandt, Sergi R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1667
• CMB Data Analysis
Chairperson: Natoli, Paolo
Probing Cosmic Dark Ages with the CMB Polarization Measure-
ments
Popa, Lucia Aurelia; Stefanescu, Petruta; Burigana, Carlo . . . . . . . . 1671
Dark Energy Constraints from Needlets Analysis of WMAP3 and
NVSS Data
Pietrobon, Davide; Balbi, Amedeo; Marinucci, Domenico . . . . . . . . . 1674
The Matter Power Spectrum as a Tool to Discriminate Dark
Matter-Dark Energy Interaction
Olivares, German; Pavon, Diego; Atrio-Barandela, Fernando . . . . . . . 1677
The BRAIN Experiment
Polenta, Gianluca; for the BRAIN collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1680
• Observational Gravitational Lensing
Chairperson: Jetzer, Philippe
Microlensing with the Radioastron Space Telescope
Zakharov, Alexander F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1691
Microlensing Towards M31
Calchi Novati, Sebastiano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1694
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Does the LMC Halo Contribute Significantly to the MACHO
Events?
Scarpetta, Gaetano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1697
A New Analysis of the MEGA M31 Microlensing Events
Nucita, Achille A.; Ingrosso, Gabriele; De Paolis, Francesco;
Strafella, Francesco; Calchi Novati, Sebastiano; Scarpetta, Gae-
tano; Jetzer, Philippe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1700
On the Lens Nature in Microlensing Searches
De Paolis, Francesco; Ingrosso, Gabriele; Nucita, Achille A. . . . . . . . 1702
• Theoretical Gravitational Lensing
Chairperson: Perlick, Volker
Gravitational Lensing by Braneworld Black Holes
Whisker, Richard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1707
Gravitational Lensing of Stars Surrounding Supermassive Black
Holes
Bozza, Valerio; Mancini, Luigi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1710
Kerr Black Holes Gravitational Lensing in the Strong Deflection
Limit: An Analytical Approach
De Luca, Fabiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1713
On Gravitational Lensing by a Kerr Black Hole
Sereno, Mauro; De Luca, Fabiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1716
Testing Theories of Gravity with Black Hole Lensing
Keeton, Charles R.; Petters, Arlie O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1719
Gravitational Lensing by Higher Dimensional Black Holes
Majumdar, Archan S.; Mukherjee, Nupur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1722
Iron Kα Line Profiles and Shadow Shapes as Evidences of a
Gravitational Lensing in a Strong Gravitational Field near BHs
Zakharov, Alexander F.; De Paolis, Francesco; Nucita, Achille A.;
Ingrosso, Gabriele . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1725
Lensing Effects on Gravitational Waves in a Clumpy Universe
Yoo, Chul-Moon; Nakao, Ken-ichi; Kozaki, Hiroshi; Takahashi, Ryuichi . . 1728
QSO Lensing
Miranda, Marco; Jetzer, Philippe; Maccio, Andrea V. . . . . . . . . . . 1731
JLenses and XFGLenses
Frutos-Alfaro, Francisco; Solıs-Sanchez, Hugo . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1734
Wave Fronts in General Relativity Theory
Grave, Frank; Frutos-Alfaro, Francisco; Muller, Thomas; Adis, Daria . . . 1737
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• Galaxies and the Large-Scale Structure
Chairperson: Sheth, Ravi
Spherical Voids in a Newton-Friedmann Universe
Triay, Roland; Fliche, Henri H. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1743
• Dark Energy and Universe Acceleration
Chairperson: Starobinsky, Alexei
Dark Energy and Universe Acceleration of Nonlinear Supersym-
metric General Relativity
Shima, Kazunari; Tsuda, Motomu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1749
Testing the Dark-Energy-Dominated Cosmology by the Solar-
System Experiments
Dumin, Yurii V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1752
A Darkless Spacetime
Tartaglia, Angelo; Capone, Monica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1755
On Intrinsic Invariance in Gurzadyan-Xue Cosmological Models
Khachatrian, Harutyun; Vereshchagin, Gregory V.; Yegorian, Gegham . . . 1758
Phantom Dark Energy and its Cosmological Consequences.
Dabrowski, Mariusz P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1761
The Generalized Second Law in Dark Energy Dominated Universes
Izquierdo, German; Pavon, Diego . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1764
Accelerated Expansion by Non-Minimally Coupled Scalar Fields
Bieli, Roger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1767
Vacuum Energy Generating Mechanisms in Cosmic Expansion
with Natural UV Cutoff
Kempf, Achim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1770
New Kinematical Constraints on Cosmic Acceleration
Rapetti, David; Allen, Steve W.; Amin, Mustafa A.; Blandford,
Roger D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1773
Dark Energy and Decaying Dark Matter
Mathews, Grant J.; Lan, Nguyen Quynh; Wilson, James R. . . . . . . . 1776
Gravitational Instanton-Solution to Cosmological Constant
Xue, She-Sheng . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1779
An Alternative Source for Dark Energy
Wanas, Mamdouh I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1782
An Awesome Hypothesis for Dark Energy: The Abnormally
Weighting Energy
Fuzfa, Andre; Alimi, Jean-Michel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1785
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Perturbations of a Cosmological Constant Dominated Universe
Vasuth, Matyas; Czinner, Viktor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1788
On the Gurzadyan-Xue Cosmological Models and the Dynamics
of Density Perturbation
Yegorian, Gegham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1791
Scalar-Tensor Dark Energy Models
Ganouji, Radouane; Polarski, David; Ranquet, Andre; Starobinsky,
Alexei A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1794
Reconstruction of Dark Energy Using Supernova and Other
Datasets
Alam, Ujjaini; Sahni, Varun; Starobinsky, Alexei A. . . . . . . . . . . . 1797
f(R) Dark energy: From the Time of Recombination till Present
Day
Gurovich, Viktor; Folomeev, Vladimir; Tokareva, Iya . . . . . . . . . . 1800
Probing Dynamical Dark Energy with Press-Schechter Mass
Functions
Le Delliou, Morgan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1803
Broken Scale Invariance and Quintessence (A Quarter of a Century
Ago)
Venturi, Giovanni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1807
• Topology of the Universe
Chairperson: Demianski, Marek
An Axisymmetric Object-Based Search for a Flat Compact
Dimension
Mathews, Grant J.; Menzies, Dylan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1813
Topological Gravitation on Graph Manifolds
Mitskievich, Nikolai V.; Efremov, Vladimir N.; Hernandez Magdaleno . . . 1816
Supernovae Constraints on Cosmological Density Parameters and
Cosmic Topology
Reboucas, Marcelo J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1819
Supernovae Constraints on DGP Model and Cosmic Topology
Reboucas, Marcelo J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1824
• Inhomogeneous Cosmology
Chairperson: Krasinski, Andrzej
Reinterpreting Dark Energy Through Backreaction: The Minimally
Coupled Morphon Field
Larena, Julien; Buchert, Thomas; Alimi, Jean-Michel . . . . . . . . . . 1831
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Initial Conditions for Primordial Black Hole Formation
Musco, Ilia; Polnarev, Alexander G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1834
Is the Apparent Acceleration of the Universe Expansion Driven by
a Dark Energy-Like Component or by Inhomogeneities?
Marie-Noelle; Celerier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1837
Evolution of a Void and an Adjacent Galaxy Supercluster in the
Quasispherical Szekeres Model
Bolejko, Krzysztof . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1847
Covariant Description of the Inhomogeneous Mixmaster Chaos
Benini, Riccardo; Montani, Giovanni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1857
The Mass and the Geometry of the Cosmos
Hellaby, Charles; Lu, Hui-Ching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1860
• Nonsingular Cosmology — Inflation
Chairperson: Novello, Mario
Emergent Universe with Bulk Viscosity
Mukherjee, Sailo; Paul, Bikash C.; Dadhich, Naresh K.; Maharaj,
Sunil D.; Beesham, Aroonkumar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1873
Bulk Viscosity Impact on the Scenario of Warm Inflation
Mimoso, Jose Pedro; Nunes, Ana; Pavon, Diego . . . . . . . . . . . . 1876
• Quantum Cosmology and Quantum Effects in the
Early Universe
Chairperson: Vargas Moniz, Paulo
Scalar Field Phase Dynamics in Preheating
Charters, T.; Nunes, Ana; Mimoso, Jose Pedro . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1881
Branch Wave Functions for Quasi-Classical Homogeneous
Universes
Craig, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1884
Quantum Phantom Cosmology
Sandhoefer, Barbara . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1887
Generic Evolutionary Quantum Universe
Battisti, Marco Valerio; Montani, Giovanni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1890
Quantum Cosmology from Three Different Perspectives
Esposito, Giampiero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1893
On the Thermal Boundary Condition of the Wave Function of the
Universe
Bouhmadi-Lopez, Mariam; Vargas Moniz, Paulo . . . . . . . . . . . . 1898
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Dark Energy from Quantum Wave Function Collapse of Dark
Matter
Majumdar, Archan S.; Home, D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1901
Cosmological Perturbations in Quantum Cosmological Back-
grounds
Pinto-Neto, Nelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1904
Classical and Quantum Aspects of the Inhomogeneous Mixmaster
Chaoticity
Benini, Riccardo; Montani, Giovanni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1909
Cosmological Dynamics with Vacuum Polarization
Toporensky, Alexey V.; Tretyakov, Petr V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1912
Some Cosmological Consequences of Loop Quantum Gravity
Mulryne, David J.; Tavakol, Reza . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1915
Semiclassical Supersymmetric Quantum Gravity
Kiefer, Claus; Luck, Tobias; Vargas Moniz, Paulo . . . . . . . . . . . . 1920
Multigravity and Spacetime Foam
Garattini, Remo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1925
Boundary Conditions and Predictions of Quantum Cosmology
Page, Don N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1928
Quantum Cosmology with Nontrivial Topology
Fagundes, Helio V.; Vargas, Teofilo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1933
Non-Singular Solutions in Loop Quantum Cosmology
Vereshchagin, Gregory V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1936
Minimal Energy and Factor Ordering in Quantum Cosmology
Hinterleitner, Franz; Steigl, Roman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1939
On the False Vacuum Bubble Nucleation
Lee, Bum-Hoon; Lee, Chul Hoon; Lee, Wonwoo; Park, Chanyong . . . . . 1942
PART C
PARALLEL SESSIONS
• The GRB – Supernova Connection
Chairperson: Chardonnet, Pascal
Swift Observations of GRB050712
De Pasquale, Massimiliano; Poole, Tracey; Zane, Silvia; Page,
Mathew; Breeveld, Alice; O’Mason, Keith; Grupe, Dicke; Burrows,
David; Nousek, John; Roming, Peter; Krimm, Hans; Gehrels,
Neil; Zhang, Bing; Kobayashi, Shiho . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1947
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No Astrophysical Dyadospheres
Page, Don N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1950
Magnetized Hypermassive Neutron Star Collapse: A Candidate
Central Engine for Short-Hard GRBs
Stephens, Branson C.; Duez, Matthew D.; Liu, Yuk Tung; Shapiro,
Stuart L.; Shibata, Masaru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1953
Theoretical Interpretation of Luminosity and Spectral Properties
of GRB 031203
Bianco, Carlo Luciano; Bernardini, Maria Grazia; Chardonnet,
Pascal; Fraschetti, Federico; Ruffini, Remo; Xue, She-Sheng . . . . . . . 1956
GRB980425 and the Puzzling URCA1 Emission
Bernardini, Maria Grazia; Bianco, Carlo Luciano; Caito, Letizia;
Dainotti, Maria Giovanna; Guida Roberto; Ruffini, Remo J. . . . . . . . 1959
• The Afterglow, Short and Long GRBs
Chairperson: Arkhangelskaja, Irene
The Ep,i–Eiso Correlation and the Nature of Sub-Energetic GRBs
Amati, Lorenzo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1965
The GRB Detected by AVS-F Apparatus Onboard CORONAS-F
Satellite in 2001–2005 Years
Arkhangelskaja, Irene V.; Arkhangelsky, Andrey I.; Glyanenko,
Alexander S.; Kotov, Yuri D.; Kuznetsov, Sergey N. . . . . . . . . . . . 1968
Special Relativistic Simulations of Magneto-Driven Jet from
Core-Collapse Supernovae
Takiwaki, Tomoya; Kotake, Kei; Yamada, Shoichi; Sato, Katsuhiko . . . . 1971
Theoretical Interpretation of “Long” and “Short” GRBs
Bianco, Carlo Luciano; Bernardini, Maria Grazia; Caito, Letizia;
Chardonnet, Pascal; Dainotti, Maria Giovanna; Fraschetti,
Francesca; Guida, Roberto; Ruffini, Remo; Xue, She-Sheng . . . . . . . . 1974
Theoretical Interpretation of GRB011121
Caito, Letizia; Bernardini, Maria Grazia; Bianco, Carlo Luciano;
Dainotti, Maria Giovanna; Guida, Roberto; Ruffini, Remo . . . . . . . . 1977
On GRB 060218 and the GRBs Related to Supernovae Ib/c
Dainotti, Maria Giovanna; Bernardini, Maria Grazia; Bianco,
Carlo Luciano; Caito, Letizia; Guida, Roberto; Ruffini, Remo . . . . . . . 1981
The “Fireshell” Model in the Swift Era
Bianco, Carlo Luciano; Ruffini, Remo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1989
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GRB970228 as a Prototype for the Class of GRBs with an Initial
Spikelike Emission
Bernardini, Maria Grazia; Bianco, Carlo Luciano; Caito, Letizia;
Dainotti, Maria Giovanna; Guida, Roberto; Ruffini, Remo . . . . . . . . 1992
Theoretical Interpretation of GRB060124: Preliminary Results
Guida, Roberto; Bernardini, Maria Grazia; Bianco, Carlo Luciano;
Caito, Letizia; Dainotti Maria Giovanna; Ruffini, Remo . . . . . . . . . 1995
• GRBs and Host Galaxies
Chairperson: Bjornsson, Gunnlaugur
Numerical Counterparts of GRB Host Galaxies
Courty, Stephanie; Bjornsson, Gunnlaugur; Gudmundsson, Einar H. . . . 2003
The Host Galaxies of Long Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Mid-Infrared
view from the Spitzer Space Telescope
Le Floc’h, Emeric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2006
Gamma-Ray Burst Host Galaxy Gas and Dust
Starling, Rhaana; Wijers, Ralph; Wiersema, Klaas . . . . . . . . . . . 2009
Low Redshift GRBs and their Host Galaxies
Tanvir, Nial R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2012
The Analysis of GRB Redshift Distribution
Arkhangelskaja, Irene V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2015
Fundamental Properties of GRB-Selected Galaxies: A Swift/VLT
Legacy Survey
Jakobsson, Pall; Hjorth, Jens; Fynbo, Johan P.U.; Gorosabel,
Javier; Jaunsen, Andreas O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2019
• GRB Observations by SWIFT
Chairperson: Angelini, Lorella
The Swift XRT: Early X-Ray Afterglows
Tagliaferri, Gianpiero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2025
Initial Results from Swift/UVOT
Marshall, Francis E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2030
Investigation of Jet Break Features in Swift Gamma-Ray Bursts
Sato, Garo et al. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2033
Recent Results from the Swift Burst Alert Telescope
Krimm, Hans A.; for the Swift/BAT team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2036
Optical Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts at the First Russian
Robotic Telescope MASTER
Tyurina, Nataly; Lipunov, Vladimir M.; Kornilov, Victor G.;
Gorbovskoy, Evgeniy S.; Kuvshinov, Dmirtiy A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2039
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• Cosmological Singularities
Chairperson: Cotsakis, Spiros
Flat, Radiation Universes with Quadratic Corrections and Asymp-
totic Analysis
Cotsakis, Spiros; Tsokaros, Antonios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2045
The Recollapse Problem of Closed Isotropic Models in Second
Order Gravity Theory
Miritzis, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2048
Big-Rip, Sudden Future and Other Exotic Singularities in the
Universe
Dabrowski, Mariusz; Balcerzak, Adam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2051
Braneworld Cosmological Singularities
Antoniadis, Ignatios; Cotsakis, Spiros; Klaoudatou, Ifigeneia . . . . . . . 2054
Generalized Puiseux Series Expansion for Cosmological Milestones
Cattoen, Celine; Visser, Matt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2057
• Chaos in General Relativity and Cosmology
Chairperson: Gurzadyan, Vahe
Chaos in the Yang-Mills Theory and Cosmology: Quantum Aspects
Matinyan, Sergei . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2063
Chaos, Gravity and Wave Maps with Target SU(2)
Szybka, Sebastian Jan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2078
Chaos in Core-Halo Gravitating Systems
Ghahramanyan, Tigran; Gurzadyan, Vahe G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2081
Transient Chaos in Scalar Field Cosmology on a Brane
Toporensky, Alexey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2084
Toward a Holographic Origin of Cosmological Large Scale Structure
Mureika, Jonas R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2087
Vector Field Induced Chaos in Multi-dimensional Homogeneous
Cosmologies
Benini, Riccardo; Kirillov, A. Alexander; Montani, Giovanni . . . . . . . 2090
• Einstein-Maxwell Systems
Chairperson: Lee, Chul Hoon
Dynamo Action on Relativistic Spherical Stars
Nadiezhda, Montelongo-Garcia; Thomas, Zannias . . . . . . . . . . . . 2095
External Electromagnetic Fields of a Slowly Rotating Magnetized
Star with Nonvanishing Gravitomagnetic Charge
Ahmedov, Bobomurat J.; Khugaev, Avas V.; Rakhmatov, Nemat I. . . . . 2098
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Aligned Electromagnetic Excitations of the Kerr-Schild Solution
Burinskii, Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2101
Static Perturbations of a Reissner-Nordstrom Black Hole by a
Charged Massive Particle
Bini, Donato; Geralico, Andrea; Ruffini, Remo . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2104
Charged Black String Solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell Equations
in Higher Dimensions
Lee, Chul Hoon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2107
On the Hypothesis of Gravimagnetism
Abdil’din, Meirkhan M.; Abishev, Medeu E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2110
Static Perturbations of a Reissner-Nordstrom Black Hole by a
Charged Massive Particle
Bini, Donato; Geralico, Andrea; Ruffini, Remo . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2113
• Theoretical Issues in GR
Chairperson: Brill, Dieter
A Framework for the Discussion of Singularities in General
Relativity
Whale, Benjamin E.; Scott, Susan M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2119
Axial Symmetric Gravitomagnetic Monopole in Cylindrical
Coordinates
Kagramanova, Valeria G.; Ahmedov, Bobomurat J. . . . . . . . . . . . 2122
Optical Reference Geometry and Inertial Forces in Kerr-de Sitter
Spacetimes
Kovar, Jirı; Stuchlık, Zdenek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2125
On the Construction of Syzgies of the Polynomial Invariants of the
Riemann Tensor
Lim, Allan E.K.; Carminati, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2128
A General Covariant Stability Theory
Wanas, Mamdouh I.; Bakry, Mohamed A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2131
Relativistic Generalization of the Inertial and Gravitational Masses
Equivalence Principle
Mitskievich, Nikolai V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2134
Static Perturbations by a Point Mass on a Schwarzschild
Black Hole
Bini, Donato; Geralico, Andrea; Ruffini, Remo . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2137
Spatial Noncommutativity in a Rotating Frame
Beciu, Mircea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2140
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On Energy and Momentum of the Friedman and Some More
General Universes
Garecki, Janusz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2143
Quasilocal Energy for an Unusual Slicing of Static Spherically
Symmetric Metrics
Chen, Chiang-Mei; Nester, James M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2146
Quasilocal Energy for Cosmological Models
Nester, James M.; Chen, Chiang-Mei; Liu, Jian-Liang . . . . . . . . . . 2149
Relative Strains in General Relativity
Bini, Donato; de Felice, Fernando; Geralico, Andrea . . . . . . . . . . . 2152
Dyonic Kerr-Newman Black Holes, Complex Scalar Field and
Cosmic Censorship
Semiz, Ibrahim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2155
The Ideas of GR, Quantization, Non-equilibrium Theormodynam-
ics and Gravimagnetism in Planetary Cosmogony
Abdil’din, Meirkhan M.; Abishev, Medev E.; Beissen, Nurzada A. . . . . . 2158
• Wormholes, Energy Conditions and Time Machines
Chairperson: Hadley, Mark
N -Spheres: Regular Black Holes, Static Wormholes and Gravastars
with a Tube-Like Core
Zaslavskii, Oleg B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2169
Averaged Energy Inequalities for Non-Minimally Coupled Classical
Scalar Fields
Osterbrink, Lutz W. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2172
Self-Sustained Traversable Wormholes and the Equation of State
Garattini, Remo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2175
Classical and Quantum Wormholes in a Cosmology with Decaying
Dark Energy
Darabi, Farhad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2178
Nariai-Bertotti-Robinson Spacetimes as a Building Material for
One-Way Wormholes with Horizons, but without Singularity
Mitskievich, Nikolai V.; Medina Guevara, Marıa Guadalupe;
Rodrıguez, Hector Vargas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2181
Cosmic Time Machines and Gamma Ray Bursts
De Felice, Fernando . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2184
Static and Dynamic Traversable Wormholes
Adamiak, Jaroslaw P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2187
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Wormholes in the Accelerating Universe
Gonzalez-Dıaz, Pedro F.; Martın-Moruno, Prado . . . . . . . . . . . . 2190
Traversable Wormholes Supported by Cosmic Accelerated Ex-
panding Equations of State
Lobo, Francisco S.N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2193
On Wormholes of Massless K-Essence
Estevez-Delgado, Joaquin; Zannias, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2196
Dynamic Wormhole Spacetimes Coupled to Nonlinear
Electrodynamics
Berrocal Arellano, Aaron V.; Lobo, Francisco S.N. . . . . . . . . . . . 2199
• Exact Solutions (Mathematical Aspects)
Chairperson: Alekseev, George
Robinson-Trautman Spacetimes in Higher Dimensions
Ortaggio, Marcello; Podolsky, Jirı . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2205
Solutions of Seiberg-Witten and Einstein-Maxwell-Dirac Equations
in Euclidean Signature
Cihan, Saclioglu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2208
Euler Numbers on Cobordant Hypersurfaces
Harriott, Tina A.; Williams, Jeff G. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2211
Symmetries of the Weyl Tensor in Bianchi V Spacetimes
Kashif, Abdul Rehman; Saifullah, Khalid; Shabbir, Ghulam S. . . . . . . 2213
Classification of Spacetimes according to Conformal Killing Vectors
Saifullah, Khalid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2216
Exact Solutions for Radiating Relativistic Star Models
Misthry, Suryakumari S.; Maharaj, Sunil D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2219
An EMP Model of Bianchi 1 Cosmology
Williams, Floyd L. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2222
Exact Static Solutions for Scalar Fields Coupled to Gravity in
(3+1)-Dimensions
Bilge, Ayse H.; Daghan, Durmus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2225
Thermodynamic Description of Inelastic Collisions in General
Relativity
Neugebauer, Gernot; Hennig, Joerg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2228
Distorted Killing Horizons and Algebraic Classification of Curva-
ture Tensors
Pravda, Vojtech; Zaslavskii, Oleg B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2231
Quasi-Stationary Routes to the Kerr Black Hole
Meinel, Reinhard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2234
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Classification Results on Purely Magnetic Perfect Fluid Models
Wylleman, Lode; Van den Bergh, Norbert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2237
Purely Electric Perfect Fluids of Petrov Type D
Wylleman, Lode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2240
Self-Dual Fields on the Space of a Kerr-Taub-Bolt Instanton
Aliev, Alikram N.; Saclioglu, Cihan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2243
The Kerr Theorem, Multisheeted Twistor Spaces and Multiparticle
Kerr-Schild Solutions.
Burinskii, Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2246
Electrical Force Lines of a 2-Soliton Solution of the Einstein-
Maxwell Equations
Pizzi, Marco . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2249
Monodromy Transform Approach in the Theory of Integrable
Reductions of Einstein’s Field Equations and Some Applications
Alekseev, George . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2252
Closed Timelike Curves and Geodesics of Godel-Type Metrics
Sarioglu, Ozgur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2255
Conformal Symmetries in Spherical Spacetimes
Maharaj, Sunil D.; Moopanar, Selvan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2258
A Theorem of Beltrami and the Integration of the Geodesic
Equations
Boccaletti, Dino; Catoni, Francesco; Cannata, Roberto; Zampetti, Paolo . . 2261
Gravitational Collapse and Horizon Formation in 2+1 Dimensional
Gravity
Brill, Dieter; Khetarpal, Puneet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2264
Purely Magnetic Silent Universes Do Not Exist
Vu, Khai T.; Carminati, John . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2268
• Exact Solutions (Physical Aspects)
Chairperson: Scott, Susan M.
Zeeman-Type Dragging in the Kerr-Newman and NUT Spacetimes
Mitskievich, Nikolai V.; Lopez Benıtez, Luis I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2273
Physical Implications for the Uniqueness of the Value of the
Integration Constant in the Vacuum Schwarzschild Solution
Mitra, Abhas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2276
Singularity Analysis of Generalized Cylindrically Symmetric
Spacetimes
Konkowski, Deborah A.; Helliwell, Thomas M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2279
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Some Properties of Kerr Geometry with a Repulsive Cosmological
Constant
Petrasek, Martin; Hledık, Stanislav . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2282
Solution Generating Theorems: Perfect Fluid Spheres and the
TOV Equation
Boonserm, Petarpa; Visser, Matt; Weinfurtner, Silke . . . . . . . . . . 2285
Spherically Symmetric Gravitational Collapse of Perfect Fluids
Lasky, Paul; Lun, Anthony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2288
High-Speed Cylindrical Collapse of Two Dust Fluids
Sharif, Muhammad; Ahmad, Zahid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2291
Some Physical Consequences of the Multipole Structure of the
Kerr and Kerr-Newman Solutions
Rosquist, Kjell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2294
Visualising Spacetimes via Embedding Diagrams
Hledık, Stanislav; Stuchlık, Zdenek; Cipko, Alois . . . . . . . . . . . . 2299
Canonical Analysis of Radiating Atmospheres of Stars in
Equilibrium
Kovacs, Zolton; Gergely, Laszlo A.; Horvath, Zsolt . . . . . . . . . . . 2302
• Self-Gravitating Systems
Chairperson: Mielke, Eckehard W.
Platonic Sphalerons in Einstein-Yang-Mills and Yang-Mills-Dilaton
Theory
Kleihaus, Burkhard; Kunz, Jutta; Myklevoll, Kari . . . . . . . . . . . . 2307
Comment on “General Relativity Resolves Galactic Rotation
without Exotic Dark Matter” by F.I. Cooperstock and S. Tieu
Fuchs, Burkhard; Phleps, Stefanie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2310
Solitonic and Non-Solitonic Q-Stars
Verbin, Yosef . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2313
Rotating Monopole-Antimonopole Pairs and Vortex Rings
Neemann, Ulrike; Kunz, Jutta; Kleihaus, Burkhard . . . . . . . . . . . 2316
Sources of Static Cylindrical Spacetimes
Zofka, Martin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2319
Gravitating Multi-Skyrmions
Kleihaus, Burkhard; Ioannidou, Theodora; Kunz, Jutta . . . . . . . . . . 2322
A New Exact Static Thin Disk with a Central Black Hole
Gonzalez, Guillermo A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2325
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Bifurcations of Nonlinear Curvature Lagrangians in the Boson
Star Model
Schunck, Franz E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2328
Approximate Dynamics of Dark Matter Ellipsoids
Bisnovatyi-Kogan, Gennadyl S.; Tsupko, Oley Yu. . . . . . . . . . . . 2331
Nonextensive Statistical Theory of Density Distributions in Grav-
itationally Clustered Structures
Leubner, Manfred P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2334
General Relativistic Accretion with Backreaction
Karkowski, Janusz; Kinasiewicz, Bogusz; Mach, Patryk; Malec,
Edward; Swierczynski, Zdobyslaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2337
Non-Homogeneous Axisymmetric Models of Self-Gravitating
Systems
Cherubini, Christian; Filippi, Simonetta; Ruffini, Remo; Sepul-
veda, Alonso; Zuluaga, Jorge I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2340
Gravitational Wave Damping from a Self-Gravitating Vibrating
Ring of Matter around a Black Hole
Basu, Prasad; Chakrabarti, Sandip K. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2343
Variational Principles and Hamiltonian Formulation of Spherical
Shell Dynamics
Kijowski, Jerzy; Magli, Giulio; Malafarina, Daniele . . . . . . . . . . . 2346
• Operating GW Detectors
Chairperson: Bassan, Massimo
Virgo Commissioning Progress
Barsuglia, Matteo; for the Virgo Collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2351
Results from LIGO Observations: Stochastic Background and
Continuous Wave Signals
Christensen, Nelson; for the Ligo Scientific Collaboration . . . . . . . . 2356
Explorer and Nautilus Gravitational Wave Detectors - A Status
Report
Bassan, Massimo; for the ROG Collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2359
AURIGA on the Air: Sensitivity, Calibration, Diagnostics and
Observations
Ortolan, Antonello; for the AURIGA collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . 2365
• Advanced GW Detectors
Chairperson: Blair, David
Optical Spring at Thermal Equilibrium
Di Virgilio, Angela . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2373
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Measurements of Electrical Charge Distribution Variations on
Fused Silica
Prokhorov, Leonid G.; Mitrofanov, Valery P. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2376
Developments toward Monolithic Suspensions for Advanced Grav-
itational Wave Detectors
Heptonstall, Alastair; Cantley, Caroline; Crooks, David; Cumming,
Alan; Hough, James; Jones, Russell; Martin, Iain; Rowan, Sheila;
Cagnoli, Gianpietro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2379
Concept Study of Yukawa-like Potential Tests Using Dynamic
Gravity-Gradients with Interferometric Gravitational-Wave
Detectors
Raffai, Peter; Marka, Szabolcs; Matone, Luca; Marka, Zsuzsa . . . . . . . 2382
Astrophysical Sources of the Gravitational Waves
Lipunov, Vladimir M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2385
• Space and Third Generation GW Detectors
Chairperson: Hough, Jim
DECIGO: The Japanese Space Gravitational Wave Antenna
Ando, Masaki; et al. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2393
Design and Construction of the LISA Technology Package Optical
Bench Interferometer
Killow, Christian J.; Bogenstahl, Johanna; Perruer-Lloyd,
Michael; Ward, Henry; Robertson, David I.; Guzman Cervantes,
Felipe; Steier, Frank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2398
Compact Binary Inspiral and the Science Potential of Third-
Generation Ground-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors
Van Den Broeck, Chris; Sengupta, Anand S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2401
Discrete Sampling Variation Measurement Technique for Sub-SQL
Sensitivity Detection of Gravitational Waves
Danilishin, Stefan L.; Khalili, Farid Ya. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2404
The Detection of Gravitational Waves with Matter Wave
Interferometers
Delva, Pacome; Angonin, Marie-Christine; Tourrenc, Philippe . . . . . . 2407
• GW Data Analysis
Chairperson: Ricci, Fulvio
Detecting LISA Sources Using Time-Frequency Techniques
Gair, Jonathan R.; Jones, Gareth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2413
Determining the Neutron Star Equation of State using the Narrow-
Band Gravitational Wave Detector Schenberg
de Araujo, Jose Carlos N.; Marranghello, Guilherme F. . . . . . . . . . 2416
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Approximate Waveform Templates for Detection of Extreme Mass
Ratio Inspirals with LISA
Gair, Jonathan R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2419
GW-Detector’s Output Processing at the Non-Gaussian Noise
Background
Gusev, Andrei V.; Popov, Serghei M.; Rudenko, Valentin . . . . . . . . 2422
Detecting a Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves in the
Presence of Non-Gaussian Noise
Himemoto, Yoshiaki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2426
Coincidences between the Gravitational Wave Detectors EX-
PLORER and NAUTILUS in the Years 1998, 2001, 2003 and
2004
Pizzella, Guido . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2429
Incoherent Strategies for the Network Detection of Periodic
Gravitational Waves
Astone, Pia; Frasca, Sergio; Palomba, Cristiano . . . . . . . . . . . . 2438
Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves: Simple Criterion for
Optimal Detector Networks
Prix, Reinhard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2441
First Coincidence Search among Periodic Gravitational Wave
Source Candidates Using Virgo Data
Palomba, Cristiano; for the Virgo Collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2444
Primordial Black-Hole Gravitational Wave Background Noise in
the LISA, DECIGO and BBO Frequency Bands
de Araujo, Jose Carlos N.; Aguiar, Odylio D.; Miranda, Oswaldo P. . . . . 2448
• Recent Advances in the History of General Relativity
Chairperson: Renn, Juergen
The Einstein-Varicak Correspondence on Relativistic Rigid
Rotation
Sauer, Tilman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2453
The History of the So-Called Lense-Thirring Effect
Pfister, Herbert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2456
M.-A. Tonnelat’s Research Concerning Unified Field Theory
Goenner, Hubert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2459
Rosenfeld, Bergmann, Dirac and the Invention of Constrained
Hamiltonian Dynamics
Salisbury, Donald C. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2467
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Stellar and Solar Positions in 1701-1703 Observed by Francesco
Bianchini at the Clementine Meridian Line in the Basilica of Santa
Maria degli Angeli in Rome, and its Calibration Curve
Sigismondi, Costantino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2470
• Strong Gravity and Binaries
Chairperson: Blanchet, Luc
The Effacing Principle in the Post-Newtonian Mechanics
Kopeikin, Sergei; Vlasov, Igor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2475
Gravitational Waves of a Lense-Thirring System
Vasuth, Matyas; Majar, Janos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2478
York Map, Non-Inertial Frames and the Physical Interpretation of
the Gauge Variables of the Gravitational Field
Lusanna, Luca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2481
• Post-Newtonian Dynamics in Binary Objects
Chairperson: Schaefer, Gerhard
Accurate and Efficient Gravitational Waveforms for Certain
Galactic Compact Binaries
Tessmer, Manuel; Gopakumar, Achamveedu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2487
Dimensional Regularization of the Gravitational Interaction of
Point Masses in the ADM Formalism
Damour, Thibault; Jaranowski, Piotr; Schaefer, Gerhard . . . . . . . . . 2490
New Results at 3PN via an Effective Field Theory of Gravity
Porto, Rafael A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2493
Orbital Phase in Inspiraling Compact Binaries
Vasuth, Matyas; Mikoczi, Balazs; Gergely, Laszlo A. . . . . . . . . . . . 2497
Gravitational Wave Emission from a Stellar Companion Black
Hole in Presence of an Accretion Disk Around a Kerr Black Hole
Basu, Prasad; Chakrabarti, Sandip K.; Mondal, Soumen; Goswami,
Kushalendu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2500
The Second Post-Newtonian Order Generalized Kepler Equation
Gergely, Laszlo A.; Keresztes, Zolton; Mikoczi, Balazs . . . . . . . . . . 2503
• Tests of Local Lorentz Invariance
Chairperson: Peters, Achim
The Standard-Model Extension and Tests of Relativity
Russell, Neil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2509
New Measurements of the One-Way Speed of Light and its Relation
to Clock-Comparison Experiments
Unnikrishnan, C.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2512
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Test of Time Dilation with a Two-Velocity Atomic Clock
Saathoff, Guido; Karpuk, Sergej; Reinhardt, Sascha; Buhr, Hen-
rik; Hansch, Theodor W.; Holzwarth, Ronald; Huber, Gerhard;
Novotny, Christian; Schwalm, Dirk; Udem, Thomas; Wolf, An-
dreas; Zimmermann, Marcus; Gwinner, Gerald . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2515
• Laboratory Gravity Tests
Chairperson: Laemmerzahl, Claus
Atom Interferometry for Precision Tests of Gravity: Measurement
of G and Test of Newtonian Law at Micrometric Distances
Bertoldi, Andrea; Cacciapuoti, Luigi; de Angelis, Marella;
Drullinger, Robert E.; Ferrari, Gabriele; Lamporesi, Giacomo;
Poli, Nicola; Prevedelli, Marco; Sorrentino, Fiodor; Tino,
Guglielmo M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2519
Development of Accelerometer Prototype for Testing the Equiva-
lence Principle in Free Fall
Iafolla, Valerio; Lucchesi, David; Milyukov, Vadim; Nozzoli,
Sergio; Santoni, Francesco; Shapiro, Irvin I.; Lorenzini, Enrico
C.; Cosmo, Mario L.; Ashenberg, Joshua; Cheimets, Peter N.;
Glashow, Sheldon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2530
Measurement of the Gravitational Constant G
Meyer, Hinrich; Kleinevoss, Ulf; Piel, Helmut . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2534
Solar Radius at Minimum of Cycle 23
Sigismondi, Costantino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2537
The Newtonian Gravitational Constant: Modern Status and
Perspective of New Determination
Milyukov, Vadim; Luo, Jun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2540
Relativistic Astrometry with Gaia: Advances in the RAMOD
Project
Bucciarelli, Beatrice; Crosta, Maria Teresa; Lattanzi, Mario G.;
Vecchiato, Alberto; Preti, Giovanni; de Felice, Fernando . . . . . . . . . 2543
• Clock and Space Tests of Gravity
Chairperson: Salomon, Christophe
Dynamical Clock Synchronization in Einstein’s Theory: Implica-
tions for ACES mission of ESA
Lusanna, Luca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2549
STEP Prototype Development Status
Mehls, Carsten et al. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2553
On Stellar System Tests of the Cosmological Constant
Sereno, Mauro; Jetzer, Philippe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2556
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The Lense-Thirring Effect and the Pioneer Anomaly: Solar System
Tests
Iorio, Lorenzo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2558
The Equivalence Principle and Its Tests in the Context of Gravity,
Quantum Mechanics and Cosmology
Unnikrishnan, C.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2561
The Flyby-Anomaly
Laemmerzahl, Claus; Dittus, Hansjoerg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2564
Gravity Tests and the Pioneer Anomaly
Jaekel, Marc-Thierry; Reynaud, Serge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2567
• Astrometry
Chairperson: Klioner, Sergei
A Nice Tool for Relativistic Astrometry: Synge’s World Function
Teyssandier, Pierre; Le Poncin-Lafitte, Christophe . . . . . . . . . . . 2573
Lunar Laser Ranging: A Space Geodetic Technique to Test
Relativity
Muller, Jurgen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2576
APOLLO: Next Generation Lunar Laser Ranging
Murphy, Thomas W. Jr.; Michelsen, Eric L.; Orin, Adam E.;
Battat, James B.; Stubbs, Christopher W.; Adelberger, Eric G.;
Hoyle, C.D.; Swanson, H. Erik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2579
Metric Extensions of General Relativity and Gravity Tests in the
Solar System
Reynaud, Serge; Jaekel, Marc-Thierry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2582
Measurement of the PPN-γ Parameter with a Space-Born Dyson-
Eddington-like Experiment
Vecchiato, Alberto; Gai, Mario; Lattanzi, Mario G.; Morbidelli, Roberto . . 2585
Relativistic Light Deflection near Giant Planets Using Gaia
Astrometry
Anglada-Escude, Guillem; Klioner, Sergei A.; Torra, Jordi . . . . . . . . 2588
Astrometrical Microlensing with Radioastron
Zakharov, Alexander F. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2591
Asteroidal Occultation of Regulus: Differential Effect of Light
Bending
Sigismondi, Costantino; Troise, Davide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2594
Testing General Relativity by Astrometric Measurements Close to
Jupiter, the Real GAREXPart II
Crosta, Maria Teresa; Gardiol, Daniele; Lattanzi, Mario G.;
Morbidelli, Roberto . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2597
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Relativistic Tests from the Motion of Asteroids
Hestroffer, Daniel; Mouret, Serge; Berthier, Jerome; Mignard, Francois . . 2600
• Quantum Gravity Phenomenology
Chairperson: Amelino-Camelia, Giovanni
Effective Vacuum Refractive Index from Gravity and Present
Ether-Drift Experiments
Consoli, Maurizio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2605
Quantum Gravity Effects in Rotating Black Holes
Reuter, Martin; Tuiran, Erick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2608
Lorentz Symmetry from Lorentz violation in the Bulk
Bertolami, Orfeu; Carvalho, Carla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2611
Quantum Gravity and Spacetime Symmetries
Lehnert, Ralf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2615
Lorentz Invariance Violation in Higher Order Electrodynamics
Lorek, Dennis; Laemmerzahl, Claus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2618
Hubble Meets Planck: A Cosmic Peek at Quantum Foam
Ng, Y. Jack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2621
Evolutionary Reformulation of Quantum Gravity
Montani, Giovanni . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2626
Kerr’s Gravity as a Quantum Gravity on the Compton Level
Burinskii, Alexander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2631
A Link between General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics
Rosquist, Kjell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2634
Spacetime Fluctuations and Inertia
Goklu, Ertan; Laemmerzahl, Claus; Camacho, Abel; Macias, Alfredo . . . . 2639
Quantum Gravity in Cyclic (Ekpyrotic) and Multiple (Anthropic)
Universes with Strings and/or Loops
Chung, T.J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2642
• Quantum Fields
Chairperson: Belinski, Vladimir
Quantum Liouville Theory with Heavy Charges
Menotti, Pietro; Tonni, Erik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2647
On the Path Integral for Non-Commutative (NC) QFT
Dehne, Christoph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2650
An Irreducible Form for the Asymptotic Expansion Coefficients of
the Heat Kernel of Fermions
Yajima, Satoshi; Higasida, Yoji; Fukuda, Makoto; Tokuo, Shoshi;
Kubota, Shin-Ichiro; Kamo, Yuki . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2653
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Quantum Anomalies for Generalized Euclidean Taub-Newman-
Unti-Tamburino Metrics
Visinescu, Mihai; Visinescu, Anca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2656
A New Expression for the Transition Rate of an Accelerated
Particle Detector
Louko, Jorma; Satz, Alejandro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2659
On the Geometrization of the Electromagnetic Interaction for a
Spinning Particle
Cianfrani, Francesco; Milillo, Irene; Montani, Giovanni . . . . . . . . . 2662
Can EPR Correlations be Driven by an Effective Wormhole?
Santini, Eduardo Sergio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2665
Is Torsion a Fundamental Physical Field?
Lecian, Orchidea Maria; Mercuri, Simone; Montani, Giovanni . . . . . . 2668
Unitary Quantization of the Gowdy T 3 Cosmology
Corichi, Alejandro; Cortez, Jeronimo; Mena Marugan, Guillermo A. . . . 2671
On the Interaction of the Gravitational Field of a Cosmic String
with Some Quantum Systems
Marques, Geusa; Bezerra, Valdir B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2674
Einstein-Rosen Waves Coupled to Matter
Barbero Gonzalez, Jesus Fernando; Garay, Inaki; Villasenor,
Eduardo J.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2677
Electromagnetic Radiation from a Charge Rotating in
Schwarzschild Spacetime
Castineiras, Jorge; Crispino, Luıs C.B.; Murta, Rodrigo; Matsas,
George E.A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2680
Recent Developments in Quantum Energy Inequalities
Fewster, Christopher J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2683
Black Holes as Boundaries in 2D Dilaton Supergravity
Bergamin, Luzi; Grumiller, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2686
Quasinormal Modes for Arbitrary Spins in the Schwarzschild
Background
Khriplovich, Iosif; Ruban, Gennady . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2692
Can Quantum Mechanics Heal Classical Singularities?
Helliwell, Thomas M.; Konkowski, Deborah A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2695
Quantizing Two-Dimensional Dilaton Gravity with Fermions: The
Vienna Way
Meyer, Rene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2698
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Vacuum Polarization for a Spinor Massive Field in an Einstein-
Maxwell Spacetime
Bezerra, Valdir B.; Khusnutdinov, Nail R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2701
• Casimir Effect and Short-Range Gravity
Chairperson: Mostepanenko, Vladimir
The Casimir Effect in Relativistic Quantum Field Theories
Mostepanenko, Vladimir M. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2707
Local and Global Casimir Energies in a Green’s Function Approach
Milton, Kimbal A.; Cavero-Pelaez, Ines; Kirsten, Klaus . . . . . . . . . 2727
Boundary Induced Quantum Fluctuation Effects: From Moving
Mirror to Electron Coherence
Hsiang, Jen-Tsung; Lee, Da-Shin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2746
A Theory of Electromagnetic Fluctuations for Metallic Surfaces
and van der Waals Interactions between Metallic Bodies
Bimonte, Giuseppe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2749
Theory of the Casimir Effect between Dielectric and Semiconductor
Plates
Klimchitskaya, Galina L.; Geyer, Boro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2752
A Novel Experimental Approach for the Measure of the Casimir
Effect at Large Distances
Antonini, Piergiorgio; Bressi, Giacomo; Carugno, Giovanni;
Galeazzi, Giuseppe; Messineo, Giuseppe; Ruoso, Giuseppe . . . . . . . . 2755
Measurement of the Casimir Force in the Range above 5 Microns
and Detection of the Finite Temperature Effect
Rajalakshm, Gurumukthy I.; Suresh, Doravari; Cowsik, Ramanath;
Unnikrishnan, C.S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2758
Scalar Casimir Effect with Non-Local Boundary Conditions
Saharian, Aram; Esposito, Giampiero . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2761
Sample Dependence of the Casimir Force
Pirozhenko, Irina; Lambrecht, Astrid, Svetovoy, Vitaly B. . . . . . . . . 2764
Casimir Interaction between Absorbing and Meta Materials
Intravaia, Francesco; Henkel, Carsten . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2767
Casimir Energy and a Cosmological Bounce
Herdeiro, Carlos A.R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2770
Photon Generation from the Vacuum: An Experiment to Detect
the DCE
Braggio, Caterina; Bressi, Giacomo; Carugno, Giovanni; Ruoso,
Giuseppe; Zanello, Dino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2773
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• Loop Quantum Gravity, Quantum Geometry, Spin Foams
Chairperson: Lewandowski, Jerzy
The Emergence of AdS2 from Quantum Fluctuations
Ambjørn, Jan; Janik, Romuald; Westra, Willem; Zohren, Stefan . . . . . 2779
The Ponzano-Regge Model and Reidemeister Torsion
Barrett, John W.; Naish-Guzman, Ileana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2782
The Proca-Field in Loop Quantum Gravity
Helesfai, Gabor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2785
Ambiguity of Black Hole Entropy in Loop Quantum Gravity
Tamaki, Takashi; Nomura, Hidefumi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2788
Exploring the Diffeomorphism Invariant Hilbert Space of a Scalar
Field
Sahlmann, Hanno . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2791
Nieh-Yan Invariant and Fermions in Ashtekar-Barbero-Immirzi
Formalism
Mercuri, Simone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2794
A Generalized Schroedinger Equation for Loop Quantum
Cosmology
Salisbury, Donald C.; Schmitz, Allison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2797
Spectral Analysis of the Volume Operator in Loop Quantum
Gravity
Brunnemann, Johannes; Rideout, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2800
Counting Entropy in Causal Set Quantum Gravity
Zohren, Stefan; Rideout, David . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2803
Algebraic Approach to ‘Quantum Spacetime Geometry’
Raptis, Ioannis; Wallden, Petros; Zapatrin, Roman . . . . . . . . . . . 2806
Noncummutative Translations and ?-Product Formalism
Daszkiewicz, Marcin; Lukierski, Jerzy; Woronowicz, Mariusz . . . . . . . 2809
• Brane Worlds and String Motivated Cosmology
Chairperson: Galtsov, Dmitry
Black Holes on Cosmological Branes
Gergely, Laszlo A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2815
Generalized Cosmological Equations for a Thick Brane
Khakshournia, Samad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2818
Cerenkov Radiation from Collisions of Straight Cosmic
(Super)Strings
Melkumova, Elena; Gal’tsov, Dmitri V.; Salehi, Karim . . . . . . . . . 2821
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High-Energy Effects on the Spectra of Cosmological Perturbations
in Braneworld Cosmology
Hiramatsu, Takashi; Koyama, Kazuya; Taruya, Atsushi . . . . . . . . . 2824
Braneworlds and Quantum States of Relativistic Shells
Ansoldi, Stefano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2827
Rotating Braneworld Black Holes
Aliev, Alikram N. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2830
General Solution for Scalar Perturbations in Bouncing Cosmologies
Bozza, Valerio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2833
Constraints on Accelerating Brane Cosmology with Exchange
between the Bulk and Brane
Mathews, Grant J.; Umezu, Ken-Ichi; Kajino, Toshitaka; Ichiki,
Kiyomoto; Nakamura, Ryoko; Yahiro, Masanobu . . . . . . . . . . . . 2836
Testing DGP Modified Gravity in the Solar System
Iorio, Lorenzo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2839
The Dynamics of Scalar-Tensor Cosmology from RS Two-Brane
Model
Kuusk, Piret; Jarv, Laur; Saal, Margus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2842
Self-T-Dual Brane Cosmology
Rinaldi, Massimiliano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2845
• Brane Worlds
Chairperson: Bianchi, Massimo
Catching Photons from Extra Dimensions
Dobado, Antorio; Maroto, Antorio L.; Cembranos, Jose A.R. . . . . . . . 2851
Lorentz Invariance Violation in Braneworld Models
Koroteev, Peter A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2854
The Bazanski Approach in Brane-Worlds: A Brief Introduction
Kahil, Magd Elias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2857
• M-Theory and Dualities
Chairperson: Stelle, Kellogg
M-Theory and Dualities
Mac Conamhna, Oisın . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2863
AdS Spacetimes in M-Theory
Gauntlett, Jerome P.; Mac Conamhna, Oisın A.P.; Mateos, Toni;
Waldram, Daniel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2875
Global Aspects of Seven–Brane Configurations
Bergshoeff, Eric A.; Hartong, Jelle; Ortın, Tomas; Roest, Diederik . . . . 2878
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Duality and Black Hole Partition Functions
Mohaupt, Thomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2881
M-Theory on Calabi-Yau Five-folds
Haupt, Alexander S.; Stelle, Kellogg S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2884
Hagedorn Transition and Chronology Protection in String Theory
Herdeiro, Carlos A.R. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2887
KK-Masses and Dipole Theories
Landsteiner, Karl; Montero, Sergio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2890
List of Participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2893
Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2911