Space-time and vacuum as seen from Moscow

Dec, 2001

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Abstract: (arXiv)
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 KL0π+πK_L^0 \to \pi^+ \pi^-; "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