De Sitter Projective Relativity [Paperback]

This book presents the Projective approach to de Sitter Relativity. It traces the development of renewed interest in models of the universe at constant positive curvature such as vacuum geometry. The De Sitter Theory of Relativity, formulated in 1917 with Willem De Sitter's solution of the Einstein equations, was used in different fields during the 1950s and 1960s, in the work of H. Bacry, J.M. LevyLeblond  and  F.Gursey, to name some important contributors. From the 1960s to 1980s, L. Fantappi? and G. Arcidiacono provided an elegant group approach to the De Sitter universe putting the basis for special and general projective relativity. Today such suggestions flow into a unitary scenario, and this way the De Sitter Relativity is no more a missing opportunity (F. Dyson, 1972), but has a central role in theoretical physics. In this volume a systematic presentation is given of the De Sitter Projective relativity, with the recent developments in projective general relativity and quantum cosmology.

De Sitter Relativity: A Sixty-Year-Long Story.- Steps Towards the de Sitter Relativity.- Projective Special Relativity.- Point, Fluid and Wave Mechanics.- Cosmic Electromagnetism.- Projective General Relativity (PGR).

Ignazio Licata, born 1958, is an Italian theoretical physicist, professor  and scientific director of the Institute for Scientific Methodology, Italy. He worked on quantum field theory, interpretation of quantum mechanics, and  recently quantum cosmology. His further topics of research include the
foundation of quantum mechanics, space-time at Planck scale, the group  approach in quantum cosmology, systems theory, non-linear dynamics, as well  as computation in physical, biological and cognitive systems (logical  openness, sub and super Turing systems). Licata has developed a new approaclc"