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This book chapter presents an overview of the historical experimental and theoretical developments in neutrino physics and astrophysics and also the physical properties of neutrinos, as well as the physical processes involving neutrinos. It…
Some hypotheses in modern theoretical physics that have not any experimental verification are listed. The goal of the paper is not to criticize or be lawyers any of these hypotheses. The purpose is focus physicists attention on that now…
Since the subject of noncommutative geometry is now entering maturity, we felt there is need for presentation of the material at an undergraduate course level. Our review is a zero order approximation to this project. Thus, the present…
A view on the history and current status of dark matter and dark energy, at a fairly introductory level.
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This short encyclopedia article, reviewing current information on neutron stars, is intended for a broad scientific audience.
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The following notes are intended to provide a brief primer in plasma physics, introducing common definitions, basic properties and processes typically found in plasmas. These concepts are inherent in contemporary plasma-based accelerator…
These informal notes deal with some basic properties of metric spaces, especially concerning lengths of curves.
This is an exposition of some basic ideas in the realm of Global Inverse Function theorems. We address ourselves mainly to readers who are interested in the applications to Differential Equations. But we do not deal with those applications…
I present an elementary essay on some issues related to nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, which is written in the spirit of extreme simplicity, making it an easy-to-read paper. Moreover, one can find a useful collection of ideas and…
A brief essay on how studying neutrinos can help us to better understand the Universe.
This is an account of the theory of inverse semigroups, assuming only that the reader knows the basics of semigroup theory.