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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


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


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


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


• 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


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.


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


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


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

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