At the Frontier of Spacetime

1. 65 Years in and Around Relativity
Carl H. Brans

Part I. Scalar-Tensor Theories (Brans–Dicke Theory)

2. Nonminimal Couplings in the Early Universe: Multifield Models of Inflation and the Latest Observations
David I. Kaiser

3. A New Estimate of the Mass of the Gravitational Scalar Field for Dark Energy
Yasunori Fujii

4. Axion and Dilaton + Metric Emerge Jointly from an Electromagnetic Model Universe with Local and Linear Response Behavior
Friedrich W. Hehl

5. Gravitational Theories with Stable (anti-)de Sitter Backgrounds
Tirthabir Biswas, Alexey S. Koshelev, Anupam Mazumdar

6. Rotating Boson Stars
Eckehard W. Mielke

7. The Lambda-CDM Model Is Not anUniversal Attractor of the Brans–Dicke Cosmology
Israel Quiros

8. New Setting for Spontaneous Gauge Symmetry Breaking?
Roman Jackiw, So-Young Pi

9. The Brans-Dicke Theory and Its Experimental Tests
Martin P. McHugh

Part II. Mach’s Principle and Bell’s Inequality

10. Mach’s Principle and the Origin of Inertia
Bahram Mashhoon

11. The Significance of Measurement Independence for Bell Inequalities and Locality
Michael J. W. Hall

Part III. Exotic Smoothness and Space-Time Models

12. Exotic Smoothness, Physics and Related Topics
Jan S?adkowski

13. Model and Set-Theoretic Aspects of Exotic Smoothness Structures on mathbb {R}^4




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Jerzy Król

14. Exotic Smoothness on Spheres
Duane Randall

15. Smooth Quantum Gravity: Exotic Smoothness and Quantum Gravity
Torsten Asselmeyer-Maluga

Nyckelord: Physics, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Cosmology, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics