On Einstein's Path

This collection of essays spans the gamut of research in general relativity and presents a lively and personal account of current work in the field.

Lively presentation illustrates the current work in the general relativity Includes chapters by such noted theorists as A. Ashtekar, P.G. Bergmann, J. Ehlers, E.T. Newman, J.V. Narlikar, R. Penrose, D.W. Sciama, J. Stachel, and W. Rindler Offers edited and revised essays, some given at a 1996 symposium at NYU in Schuckings honor and some written especially for this volume

Inhalt
1 Jordan, Pauli, Politics, Brecht and a Variable Gravitational Constant.- 2 Thomson Scattering in an Expanding Universe.- 3 Geometrical Formulation of Quantum Mechanics.- 4 General Covariance is Bose-Einstein Statistics.- 5 The Split and Propagation of Light Rays in Relativity.- 6 How to Define a Unique Vacuum in Cosmology.- 7 ElH Theory and Noether's Theorem.- 8 The Static Cylinder in General Relativity.- 9 Gravity and the Tenacious Scalar Field.- 10 The Cavendish Experiment in General Relativity.- 11 Wave Maps in General Relativity.- 12 General Relativity and Experiment.- 13 Some Developments in Newtonian Cosmology.- 14 Deviation of Geodesics in FLRW Spacetime Geometries.- 15 Poincaré Pseudosymmetries in Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes.- 16 Taub Numbers and Asymptotic Invariants.- 17 Second-Class Constraints.- 18 On the Structure of the Energy-Momentum and the Spin Currents in Dirac's Electron Theory.- 19 The Physical Reality of the Quantum Wave Function.- 20 The Ultimate Extension of the Bianchi Classification for Rotating Dust Models.- 21 On the Classification of the Real Four-Dimensional Lie Algebras.- 22 Spinning Universes in Newtonian Cosmology.- 23 Relativistic Gravitational Fields with Close Newtonian Analogs.- 24 Working with Engelbert.- 25 Some Remarks on Twistor Theory.- 26 Critique of the Wheeler-DeWitt Equation.- 27 A New Version of the Heavenly Equation.- 28 A Plain Man's Guide to Bivectors, Biquaternions, and the Algebra and Geometry of Lorentz Transformations.- 29 Leon Lichtenstein's Work on Rotating Fluids.- 30 Decaying Neutrinos and the Flattening of the Galactic Halo.- 31 The Kasner Condition and Inhomogeneous Perfect Fluid Cosmologies.- 32 Gravitational Screening.- 33 On the Interpretation of the EinsteinCartan Formalism.- 34 OnComplex Structures in Physics.- 35 The Engelbert Experience: Pathways from the Past.- 36 Curriculum Vita.