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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Flavio Mercati (Postdoctoral Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.10cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 24.70cm Weight: 0.524kg ISBN: 9780198789482ISBN 10: 0198789483 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 15 March 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order ![]() Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Introduction I. Historical Motivation 2: Newton's bucket 3: Origins of the Mach-Poincare Principle II. Relational Particle Dynamics 4: Barbour-Bertotti best matching 5: Best matching: Technical details 6: Hamiltonian formulation III. Relational Field Theory 7: Relativity without Relativity 8: York's solution to the initial-value problem 9: A derivation of Shape Dynamics 10: Cotton-squared theory IV. Shape Dynamics 11: Historical interlude 12: Shape Dynamics and the Linking Theory 13: Solutions of Shape Dynamics V. Appendices A: Arnowitt-Deser-Misner Gravity B: Other appendicesReviewsShape Dynamics is a new theory of gravity based on fewer and arguably more fundamental principles than the general theory of relativity. It reproduces all of the hitherto confirmed predictions of Einstein's theory but is much more restrictive in the solutions that it allows. Besides being therefore a more strongly predictive theory, it also reveals new aspects of gravity that have the potential to transform our understanding of the Big Bang and black holes. Flavio Mercati has been actively involved with the recent exciting developments of Shape Dynamics. His monograph includes a valuable account of the historical background to the theory and its conceptual underpinnings. It is an excellent introduction suitable for readers of a wide range of abilities: from physics and mathematics undergraduates, to active gravitational and cosmological researchers. * Julian Barbour, author of The Discovery of Dynamics and The End of Time * Author InformationFlavio Mercati completed his Ph.D. at the University of Rome `La Sapienza' in 2011 with a thesis on experimental tests of quantum gravity and on effective models of quantum gravity based on noncommutative field theory. He spent one year at the University of Zaragoza in Spain as a postdoctoral fellow, and another 7 months visiting the University of Nottingham in the UK. Since 2012 he has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Perimeter Institute in Ontario, Canada. Mercati has published around 30 scientific articles and three essays. In 2015 he won the Buchalter Prize for Cosmology for his research on the arrow of time. This work has received considerable attention by the media, leading to interviews by popular science journals like Wired, Scientific American, Le Scienze and Discovery News. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |