By Hugo Garcia-Compean, Bogdan Mielnik, Merced Montesinos
ISBN-10: 9812700471
ISBN-13: 9789812700476
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Considered one of smooth science's most famed and arguable figures, Jerzy Pleba ski was once a superb theoretical physicist and an writer of many fascinating discoveries typically relativity and quantum concept. identified for his unheard of analytic abilities, explosive personality, inexhaustible power, and bohemian nights with brandy, espresso, and massive quantities of cigarettes, he was once devoted to either technology and artwork, generating innumerable handwritten articles - akin to monk's calligraphy - in addition to a suite of oil work. As a collaborator but in addition an antagonist of Leopold Infeld's (a coauthor of "Albert Einstein's"), Pleba ski is famous for designing the "heavenly" and "hyper-heavenly" equations, for introducing new variables to explain the gravitational box, for the precise strategies in Einstein's gravity and in quantum idea, for his class of the tensor of subject, for a few notable ends up in nonlinear electrodynamics, and for examining normal relativity with non-stop resources lengthy earlier than Chandrasekhar et al. A tribute to Pleba ski's contributions and the diversity of his pursuits, this can be a designated and wide-ranging selection of invited papers, protecting gravity quantization, strings, branes, supersymmetry, rules at the deformation quantization, and lesser identified effects at the non-stop Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff challenge.
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2, no. 4 (Nordita, K0benhavn, 1963). 44. J. Plebanski, S. Baiariski, B. Mielnik, and J. Ryten, Known and Unknown. Essays on Theoretical Physics (Iskry, Warszawa, 1963) (in Polish). 45. J. Plebanski, Tetrads and conservations laws, in Proceedings of Theory of Gravitation Conference in Warszawa and Jablonna 25-31 July 1962, ed. L. Infeld (Gauthier-Villars, Paris and PWN, Warszawa, 1964), pp. 45-54. 46. J. Plebanski, The algebraic structure of the tensor of matter, Acta Phys. Polon. XXVI, 963 (1964).
B 29, 549 (1998). 171. H. Garcia-Compean, O. Obregon, J. F. Plebanski, and C. Ramirez, Towards a gravitational analogue to S duality in non-Abelian gauge theories,Phys. Rev. D 57, 7501 (1998). 40 172. J. F. Plebanski and M. Przanowski, A new version of the heavenly equation, in On Einstein's Path. Essays in Honor of Engelbert Schucking ed. A. Harvey (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1999) pp. 381-405. 173. J. F. Plebanski and M. Przanowski, Hermite-Einstein four-dimensional manifolds with symmetry, Class.
Plebanski, On materialistic contents of Albert Einstein's physics, Mysl Filozoficzna 5-6, 32 (1955) (in Polish). 13. L. Infeld and J. Plebanski, On a certain class of unitary transformations, Acta Phys. Polon. XIV, 41 (1955). 14. L. Infeld and J. Plebanski, Unitary transformations and spinor calculus, Bull. Acad. Polon. Sci. CI. Ill, III, 95 (1955). 15. R. Kulikowski and J. Plebanski, The optimum frequency characteristics of dynamic linear circuits, Archiwum Elektrotechniki, IV, 347 (1955) (in Polish).