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This contribution has the aim to review the basics of existing knowledge on asteroid interiors and to explore the possibility of advancing the field by introducing into it some ideas from solid state physics.
This is a position paper written as an introduction to the special volume on quantum algorithms I edited for the journal Mathematical Structures in Computer Science (Volume 20 - Special Issue 06 (Quantum Algorithms), 2010).
I present some memories of my Ph.D supervisor and, later, collaborator but always encouraging supporter Prof. G. Lazarides. Some of his contributions to our common and related scientific activities on the phenomenology of MSSM and inflation…
Ideas recently put forward by Y. Matsuo and the author are summarized on the example of the simplest ($W_3$) generalization of two-dimensional gravity. These notes are based on lectures given at the workshop `` Strings, Conformal Models and…
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This is the preface to the 26th International Conference on Logic Programming Special Issue
This is a review with the ambitious goal of covering the recent progress in: 1) universal relations (in general relativity and alternative theories of gravity), and 2) neutron star models in alternative theories. We also aim to be…
Lecture notes on selected topics in the theory of gravitation.
This paper has been withdrawn: it has been merged with the preprint to which it refers.
The recollection of souvenirs on great theoretical physicist, addressed to wide physical audience on the occasion of Bogoliubov centenary. Contains four parts: 1. Personal impressions; 2. Joint work; 3. Bogoliubov cp. Landau and 4.…
This letter is my comment about the opinion paper: Transdisciplinary electric power grid science (PNAS, 2013 - http://www.pnas.org/content/110/30/12159.full). [arXiv:1307.7305].
Proceedings contribution to Symposium in Memory of Prof. E. Anastassakis, Publ. Center of Technical University of Athens (2002). (contains no abstract).
The paper deals with pretangent spaces to general metric spaces. An ltrametricity criterion for pretangent spaces is found and it is closely related to the metric betweenness in the pretangent spaces.
This is the written version of a set of introductory lectures on string theory.
None of the previous versions of this article is the one published in Int Journ Mod Phys A which can be found on the journal server. A more recent and living review of the DArk Gravity Theory can be found in gr-qc/0610079 .
This paper presents a detailed discussion of the issue of supergravity perturbations around the flat five dimensional superspace required for manifest superspace formulations of the supergravity side of the AdS_{5}/CFT_{4} Correspondence.
Contents: Community news: - We hear that... by Jorge Pullin Research briefs: - Update on a busy year for LIGO, by Stan Whitcomb - First year results from WMAP, by Rachel Bean - Short range searches for non-Newtonian gravity, by M. Varney…
This article, written for Scolarpedia, provides a brief introduction into the subject of cosmic strings, together with a review of their main properties, cosmological evolution and observational signatures.
A Comment on the Letter by C. R. Galley, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 174301 (2013).
Introductory chapter for the book "Halfmetallic Alloys - Fundamentals and Applications" to be published in the series Springer Lecture Notes on Physics, P. H. Dederichs and I. Galanakis (eds). It contains a review of the theoretical work on…