Space-time and vacuum as seen from Moscow
Dec, 200117 pages
Part of 2001: A space-time odyssey. Proceedings, Inaugural Conference, Ann Arbor, USA, May 21-25, 2001
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- Int.J.Mod.Phys.A 17S1 (2002) 105-118
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An extended text of the talk given at the conference ``2001: A Spacetime Odyssey'', to be published in the Proceedings of the Inaugural Conference of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 21-25 May 2001, M.J. Duff and J.T. Liu eds., World Scientific, Singapore, 2002; and of Historical Lecture ``Vacuum as seen from Moscow'' at the CERN Summer School, 10 August, 2001. Contents: Introduction; Pomeranchuk on vacuum; Landau on parity, P, and combined parity, CP; Search and discovery of ; "Mirror world"; Zeldovich and cosmological term; QCD vacuum condensates; Sakharov and baryonic asymmetry of the universe, BAU; Kirzhnits and phase transitions; Vacuum domain walls; Monopoles, strings, instantons, and sphalerons; False vacuum; Inflation; Brane and Bulk; Acknowledgments; References.Note:
- 17 pages, 2 figures
- talk: Ann Arbor 2001/05/21
- talk: Geneva 2001/08/10
- particle physics: history
- space-time
- vacuum state
- parity: violation
- CP: violation
- K0(L): hadronic decay
- graviton: mirror particle
- cosmological constant
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