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List of Organizers and Sponsors V
Introduction VII
Speech delivered by His Holyness Pope John Paul II IX
Table of Contents XXV
PART A
MAIN SESSIONS
OPENING TALKS - Chairman:' L.M. Khalatnikov
Astro.Particle~Physics
A.SALAM
3
Present Problems in the Detection of High Frequency Gravitational Waves
E. AMALDI
9
On the Role of the Planck Mass
V. DE ALFARO, S. FUBINI and G. FURLAN
25
Inflationary Stages in Cosmological Models with a Scalar Field
V.A. BELINSKII, L.P. GRISHCHUK, l.M. KHALATNIKOV and Ya.B. ZEL'DOVICH
29
QUANTUM COSMOLOGY - Chairman.' H. Sato
The New Cosmogony
I. MOSS
51
Quantum Cosmology - Beyond Minisuperspace
J. HALLIWELL and S. HAWKING
65
Simplicial Quantum Gravity and Unruly Topology
J.B. HARTLE
85
COSMOLOGY - Chairman: Fang Li Zhi
Phase Transitions in the Early Universe: Geometric Effects
B.L. HU
103
On the Constraints of the Properties of "I nos" Composing Galactic Halos
R. RUFFINI and D.J. SONG
149
SUPERGRAVITY AND SUPERSTRINGS - Chairmen: Y. Ne'Eman and P. van Nieu wenhuiten
Chern -Simons Forms in Supergravity
A. CERESOLE, A. LERDA, P. VAN NIEUWENHUIZEN and P. PIZZOCHERO
167
Covariant Canonical Formalism for Gravity and Supergravity
J.E. NELSON and T. REGGE
191
Superstrings and the Unification ot Forces and Particles
M.B. GREEN
203
Superstring Phenomenology
P. CANDELAS, G.T. HOROWITZ, A. STROMINGER and E.WITTEN
227
Kaluza.Klein-Konsistency
M.DUFF
245
World Spinors and the Hadrons
Y.NE'EMAN
259
GENERAL RELATIVITY - Chairwoman: Y. Choquet-Bruhat
Nonmetricity and Torsion: Facts and Fancies in Gauge Approaches to Gravity
P. BAEKLER, F.W. HEHL and E.W. MIELKE
277
Cauchy-Riemann Structures in Optical Geometry
ROBINSON and A. TRAUTMAN
317
GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE AND GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION -
Chairman: R. Hofstadter
A Numerical Computation of the Gravitational Radiation from Rotating Gravitational Collapse
R.F.STARKandT.PIRAN
327
Analytical Calculations of Gravitational Radiation
T. DAMOUR
365
PARALLEL SESSIONS
SPACE STATION ERA - Chairman: G. Vaiana
Non-Gravitational Perturbations of High Altitude Artificial Satellites
L.CIUFOLINI and R.A. MATZNER
395
The Space Station and Observations Relating to General Relativity
H.GURSKY
401
The Gravity-Probe-B Relativity Gyroscope Experiment: Approach to a Flight Mission
J.P. TURNEAURE, C.W.F. EVER ITT, B.W. PARKINSON, J.T. ANDERSON, D. BARDAS, W.S. CHEUNG, D.B. DEBRA, W.M. FAIRBANK, R.A. FARNSWORTH, D. GILL, R. HACKER, G.M. KEISER, J.A. LIPA,J.M. LOCKHART, R.A. VAN PATTEN, R.T. PARMLEY, R.H. VASSAR and L.S. YOUNG
411
Support Dependent Torques in the Relativity Gyroscope Experiment
G.M. KEISER
465
Present Clock Stability and Realistic Prospects for the Future
R.F.C. VESSOT, E.M. MATTISON, W.J. KLEPCZYNSKI, G.M.R. WINKLER, l.F. SILVERA, H.P. GODFRIED and R.L. WALSWORTH, Jr
477
GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS - Chairmen: R Drever and G. V Pallottino
A.     BAR DETECTORS
The Gravitational Wave Experiment of the Rome Group
E. AMALDI, P. BONIFAZI, F. BRONZINI, P. CARELLI, M.G. CASTELLANO, G. CAVALLARI, E. COCCIA, C. COSMELLI, V. FOG LIETTI, S. FRASCA, R. HABEL, I. MODENA, G.V. PALLOTTINO, G. PIZZELLA, P. RAPAGNANI, F. RICCI, and G. VANNARONI
499
Status and Prospectives of BAE Measurements at Frascati
F. BORDONI, S DE PANFILIS, F. FULIGNI, V. IAFOLLA, and S NOZZOLI
523
Development of Gravitational Radiation Antennas at Maryland
K.R. CARROLL, H.A. CHAN, F. DESROSI ER, W.M. FOLKNER D.J. GRETZ, S. HABIB, J.J. HAMILTON, M.V. MOODY, R.A. NELSON, H.J. PAl K, Y. PANG, J.-P. RICHARD, J.WEBER and G. WILMOT
533
Operation of the Stanford Cryogenic Gravitational Wave Detector
W.M. FAIRBANK, M. BASSAN, E.R. MAPOLES, M.S. McASHAN, P.F. MICHELSON and B.E. MOSKOWITZ
543
The Guangzhou Gravitational Wave Detector
HU EN KE
559
A Cosmic Ray Monitor for the Stanford Gravitational Radiation Detector
B.E. MOSKOWITZ
561
Cryogenic Detector for Gravitational Radiation from the Crab Pulsar
S. OWA, M.-K. FUJIMOTO, H. HIRAKAWA, K. MORIMOTO, T. SUZUKI and K. TSUBONO
571
B.    INTERFEROMETER DETECTORS
Analysis of Gravity Wave Antenna Signals with Matched Filter Techniques
D.DEWEY
581
The MIT Prototype Gravitational Wave Detector
J. LIVAS, R. BENFORD, D. DEWEY, A. JEFFRIES, P. LINSAY, P. SAULSON, D. SHOEMAKER and R.WEISS
591
Some Improvements to the Glasgow Gravitational Wave Detector
G.P. NEWTON, J. HOUGH, G.A. KERR, B.J. MEERS N.A. ROBERTSON, H. WARD, J.B. MANGAN, S. HOGGAN and R.W.P. DREVER
599
Progress with the Garching 30-Meter Prototype for a Gravitational Wave Detector
D. SHOEMAKER, W. WIN KLER, K. MAISCHBERGER, A. RU"DIGER, R. SCHILLING and L. SCHNUPP
605
The CalTech Laser-Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detector
R. SPERO
615
Plans for a Large Gravitational Wave Antenna in Germany
W. WINKLER, K. MAISCHBERGER, A. RU'~DlGER, R. SCHILLING, L. SCHNUPP and D. SHOEMAKER
621
Optimization of Resonant Interferometric Detectors of Gravitational Radiation
JYVINET
631
C.    OTHER METHODS OF DETECTION
Theoretical Problems on Electromagnetic Detectors of Gravitational Waves
L. BARONI, G. CALLEGARI, P. FORTINI, C. GUALDI and M.ORLANDINI
641
The Detection of a Gravitational Background Radiation with Doppler Tracking of Two Spacecraft
B. BERTOTTI, L. lESS and P. BONIFAZI
647
Neutrino and Gravitation Physics
J.WEBER
657
GAUGE THEORIES - Chairman: G. Denardo
Special Relativity on R x S3
M.CARMELI
663
Small Universes and Topological Sectors of a Field Theory
R.CATENACCI and F. SALMISTRARO
671
Local Poincare Symmetry: Quantum Effects
H.T.NIEH
675
Towards the Unification of Gravity and Electro-Weak Interactions
M. NOVELLO and H. HEINTZMANN
685
Affine Gauge Theories of Gravity and Particle Physics
Dj. ~lJA~Kl
693
BLACK HOLES - Chairwoman: V. Ferran
Spin-3/2 Fields on Black Hole Spacetimes
P.C. AICHELBURG
707
Evaporating Black Hole Space-Times and the Back Reaction
R. BALBINOT
713
Bitensorial Differentiation in a Non-Affine Fibre Bundle Applied to Gauge Coupled Harmonic Fields
B. CARTER
721
On the Evaluation of the Total Flux of Energy Produced by a Kerr Black Hole
A. CURIR
729
Mathematical Aspects of the Hawking Effect
B.S. KAY
739
The Tidal Signature of Big Black Holes
J.-P.LUMINET
749
On the Determination of Quasi-Normal Modes of Schwarzschild Black Holes
H.-P. NOLLERT
759
Geometrical Invariant Expression of Vacuum Polarization Effects near Static Distorted Black Holes
N.SANCHEZ and V.P. FROLOV
769
MICROWAVE BACKGROUND - Chairman: F Melchiorri
Searching for Primordial Anisotropies at Millimeter-Wavelengths
P.BOYNTON
779
Measurement of the CSC b Law of Diffuse Galactic Emission and the 3K Large-Scale Anisotropy
R. FABBRI, I. GUIDI, V. NATALE and G. VENTURA
789
Polarization of the Cosmic Background Radiation in Magnetic Cosmologies
M. TAMBURRANO and R. FABBRI
799
LAGRANGIAN THEORIES - Chairman: F. Hehl
A Modified Quadratic Lagrangian for General Relativity Theory
N.NISSANI
809
The Weyl-Dirac Equation from Conformally Invariant Gravitation and Electromagnetism
G. PAPINI
817
A Unified Field Theory in a Complex - Real Vector Space
G.E.TAUBER
827
GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSED SYSTEMS -Chairman: A. Treves
The Uncierground Neutrino Observatories (UNO) in Italy
C. CASTAGNOLI and P. GALEOTTI
833
Discovery of Millisecond Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in Accreting Neutron Stars
M. VAN DER KLIS and F.A. JANSEN
847
Gamma Ray Bursts and Neutron Star Structure
E. LIANG
855
Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in CYG X-2
L. STELLA, L. CHIAPPETTI, A.L. CIAPI, L. MARASCHI, E.G. TANZI and A. TREVES
861
Non-Static Spherically Symmetric Exact Solutions for Charged Shear-Free Perfect Fluid Configurations
R.A. SUSSMAN
867
Fast Timing Experiments on Black Holes and Gravitational Wave Sources
K.S. WOOD
873

PART B

PARALLEL SESSIONS
EXACT SOLUTIONS - Chairmen: J. Goldberg and R. Jantzen
Solitary and Non Solitary Waves on a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Background
P.S.C. ALENCAR and P.S. LETELIER
885
Asymptotic Simplicity for Post-Minkowskian Space-Times
L.BLANCHET
895
Exact Axially Symmetric Stationary Solutions of the Einstein-Scalar Gravitational Field Equations
W. BRUCKMAN
905
The Validity of Huygens' Principle on Type N Space-Times
J. CARMINATI and R.G. McLENAGHAN
911
Ernst Potential and Multipole Moments
W.DIETZ
917
Equatorial Geodesics in Magnetic Universes
E.P. ESTEBAN
927
Collision of Two Plane Gravitational Waves
V. FERRARI and J. lBA~EZ
931
The Cartan Ideal, Prolongation, and the Painleve~Property of the Einstein Field Equation~
M.GURSESandA.H.BILGE
939
Integrable Systems for Einstein Vacuum Equations
B.K. HARRISON
949
Conformally Symmetric Spheres in General Relativity
L. HERRERA
957
Asymptotically Anti-De Sitter Universes in d 3, 4 and Higher Dimensions
M. HENNEAUX
959
The Double Kerr Solution: A Survey
C. HOENSELAERS
967
General Relativistic Singularity Free Description of Matter
I. KHAN and A. QADIR
977
The SU(2,1) Invariance of the Einstein-Maxwell Equations
D. KRAMER
983
A Spatially Periodic Generalization of the FLRW Cosmological Models
A. KRASINSKI
989
On a Fourth-Order Equation of Axisymmetric Stationary Vacuum Spacetimes
K. LORENCZ and A. SEBESTYEN
997
Stationary Vacuum Space-Times in Ernst Coordinates
Z. PERJIES
1003
The Kerr-Nut Metric with all Mass Multipole Moments
H.QUEVEDO
1015
Rotating Spacetimes of G6del -Type
M.J. REBOU~AS and A.F.F. TEIXEIRA
1025
Transitively Self-Similar Space-Times
K. ROSQUIST and R.T. JANTZEN
1033
Spherically Symmetric Solutions in R + R2 Gravity
P.TEYSSANDIER
1041
EARLY COSMOLOGY - Chairman: B.L Hu
Path Integral Quantum Cosmology
B.K. BERGER
1047
On Stability of Transition Between the De Sitter Universe and a Friedman Radiation Universe
M. DEMIANSKI and l.G. DYMNIKOVA
1053
Inflation and Flatness in Hawking's State of the Universe
D.N. PAGE
1059
Entropy Production in the Early Universe
M. SASAKI
1065
Entropy Production in a Kaluza-KIem Viscous Universe
K.TOMITA
1071
QUANTUM GRAVITY - Chairman: j. Hartle
On the Quantum Field Theory of Mutually Interacting Particles in Cosmological Gravitational Fields
J. AUDRETSCH
1079
Strong Gravity Revisited
C.C.BERNIDO
1087
Semiclassical Cosmological Models
M. CASTAGNINO, D. HARARI and J.B. PAZ
1095
Canonical Quantisation of Gravity
T.CHRISTODOULAKIS
1105
Formation of Black Holes in Quantum Cosmology
FANG Li Zhi and LI Miao
1115
Covariant Schrb'dinger Formalism and Application to Accelerated Observers
K. FREESE, C. HILL and M. MUELLER
1121
The Rindler Condensate: Ground State in an Accelerated Frame
U.H.GERLACH
1129
Can Quantum Gravity be Unitary and Causal?
P. HAJICEK
1139
Quantum Simplicial Gravity
H.W.HAMBER
1151
Multitemporal Relativistic Particle Mechanics: A Gauge Theory without Gauge-Fixings
L. LUSANNA
1163
Cone Subdivision Procedure for Regge Lattices: A Renormalization Group Approach to Quantum Gravity
M. MARTELLINI and A. MARZUOLI
1173
Stochastic Quantization in General Relativity
H.RUMPF
1183
Exact Solution to Semiclassical Quantum Gravity in Two Dimensions
N.SANCHEZ
1197
Wave Function of a Black Hole
WU Zhonq Chao
1203
KALUZA-KLEIN THEORIES - Chairman: G. Aragone
SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1) from a CP2 Coset Space
N.A.BATAKIS
1211
Observational Multidimensional Cosmology
R. BERGAMINI
1215
The Cauchy Problem in Higher Dimensional Gravity and Kaluza-KIem Theories
Y. CHOQUET-BRUHAT
1223
Equivalence of Spin and Angular Momentum in a Unified Theory
L.HALPERN
1233
Cosmology in Ten-Dimensions
Y.D. KIM and Y.S. MYUNG
1247
Attractor Universe in a Kaluza-KIem Cosmology
K. MAEDA
1255
Revisiting the Non-A bel ian Wong Equations in a Curved Space-Time, as derived from Kaluza-KIem Theories
R.P. MONDAINI
1265
Truncations in Kaluza-KIem Theories
C.N.POPE
1275
PRECISION GRAVITATIONAL EXPERIMENTS - Chairman: S. Leschititta
Experimental Test of a Prototype Active Cavity Gravitational Wave Detector
A. ABRAMOVICI, Z. VAGER and M. WEKSLER
1287
The Influence of Gravitational Radiation on Superconductors
L. ANANDAN
1299
Inertial and Gravitational Experiments with Superfluids: A Progress Report
M. BONALDI, M. CERDONIO, P. FALFERI, A. GOLLER, M. MAZZER, A. MIOTELLO, GA. PRODI,F.SORGE, R.TOMMASINI, L. VANZO, S. VITALE and S. ZERBINI
1309
The Gravity Gradiometer and the Heterodyne Detector of Gravitational Waves
A CADEZ, M KOZELJ
1319
Performance of an Active Pendulum with Interferometric Sensing
A. GIAZOTTO, E. CAMPANI, D. PASSUELLO andASTEFANINI
1329
Polarized-Body Experiments and Equivalence Principles
W.-T. NI
1335
Experimental Evidence Against a Lorentz Aether Theory (LAT)
J.TIOMNO
1347
COMPUTER RELATIVITY - Chairman: R. Stark
Volterra Series Route to Post-Maxwellian Electrodynamics: EM Resonator Detectors of Gravitational Waves
C. BISCARI, D. CUOMO, G. FRANCESCHETTI, G. PANARIELLO,S. PETRACCA, I. PINTO and F. RECANO
1357
Gravitational Radiation from Kerr Black Holes
r.NAKAMURA
1365
Three-Plus-One Regge Calculus: Formal ism and Applications to Inflationary Universes
R.M~WlLLlAMSandT.PIRAN
1373
COSMOLOGY AND INOS - Chairman: A. Ferrari Halo Collapse in Spiral Galaxies
MV. ARBOLINO
1387
Very Early Cosmologies with Irreversibility and the Monopole Dominance
B. LUKACS
1393
SUPERGRAVITY - Chairman: P. van Nieuwenhuizen
Light Front Dynamics of the Gravitini Superfields
CARAGONE
1405
A New Class of Chiral d = 6 Supergravity Theories
M.A.AWADAandP.K.TOWNSEND
1415
Spontaneous Breaking of Extended Supergravities
L. GIRARDELLO
1425
The Ultraviolet Divergences of Gravity Theories
M.H. GOROFF and A. SAGNOTTI
1437
Positive Energy Theorem for Eleven-Dimensional Kaluza-Klein Supergravity
J. KOWALSKI-GLIKMAN
1445
The Canonical Structure of the Grassmann Models and Existence of Non-Local Currents
J. MAHARANA
1447
Supergravity Theory in Twelve Dimensions
WANG Mian
1459
RELATIVISTIC SELF-GRAVITATING SYSTEMS - Chairman: U. Gerlach
Adiabatic Accretion of Rotating Matter onto a Black Hole
M.A. ABRAMOWICZ. M. LIV 10 and J. LU
1467
Spherically Symmetric Stellar Dynamics
J.BATT
1473
Behavioui' of the Ratio a for Rotating Bodies during Accretion and Gravitational Collapse
F. DE FELICE and YU Yunqiang
1477
On Systems of Self-Gravitating Bosons and Fermions Undergoing Quantum Condensation
G.INGROSSOandR.RUFFINI
1485
Relativistic Stellar Dynamics and Dense Galactic Nuclei
H.E. KANDRUP
1491
On Self-Gravitating Classical Systems with a Phase Space Cutoff
M. MERAFINA and R. RUFFINI
1501
The Stability of Inhomogeneous Spheroids with Anisotropic Pressure
F. PACHECO, G. PUCACCO and R. RUFFINI
1511
Phase-Space Dynamics of Bianchi IX Cosmological Models
L.DAMIAO SOARES
1523
RELATIVISTIC EFFECTS IN ASTROPHYSICS - Chairman: F. Bertola
Cosmological Shock Waves
A.M.ANILEandG.MOSCHETTI
1531
Gravitational Lensing and Flux Conservation
A. BLANCHARD and G. LACROIX
1537
Hydrodynamics of Radiation Driven Flows
M. CALVANI, L. NOBILI and R. TUROLLA
1543
Gravitational Lens Models
S.M.CHITRE
1549
Multiple Images of our Galaxy in Closed, Multiply Connected Cosmologies
H.V. FAGUNDES
1559
Post-Newtonian Dynamics, Gravitational Radiation, and the Binary Pulsar
M.P.HAUGAN
1565
The Dynamical Quadrupole Moment of the Sun
P.R.GOODE
1573
The Sun's Gravitational Quadrupole Moment Inferred from the Fine Structure of the Acoustic and Gravity Normal Mode Spectra of the Sun
H.A. HILL, R.D. ROSENWALD and G.F. RABAEY
1581
Phonons in a Relativistic Perfect Fluid
SMATARRESE
1591
A Relativistic Explanation of the Pulsar Drift
A.QADIR and M .RAFIQUE
1597
Time Variation of the Triple Quasar PG 1115 + 08 : Confirmation of the Gravitational Mirage Hypothesis
J. SCHNEIDER, C. VANDERRIEST, G. WLERICK, G. LELIEVRE, H. SQL, D. HORVILLE and L. RENARD
1607
CLASSICAL RELATIVITY - Chairman: W Stoeger
A Method of Solving the Geodesic Deviation Equations
S.L. BAZAN SKI
1615
A Conformal Extension of Pseudo-Newtonian Forces and Potentials
A.H. BOKHARI and A. QADIR
1623
A Gravitating Source in an Evolving Universe
A.H. BOKHARI and A. QADIR
1635
On Kijowski's Unconstrained Degrees of Freedom of the Gravitational Field
PJ.CHRUSCIEL
1643
The New Gravitational Radiation Energy Loss Formula
F.L. COOPERSTOCK and P.H. LIM
1651
The Slow-Motion Formalism for the Numerical Study of Non-Radial G-Mode Pulsations in Relativistic Stars
L.S. FINN
1657
Null Cone Canonical Formalism
J.N. GOLDBERG
1665
On Positivity of Gravitational Energy
J. KIJOWSKI
1681
Angular Momentum on Future Null Infinity
O.M.MORESCHI
1687
Extremum Theorems for Angular Momentum in General Relativity
E.NAHMAD-ACHAR
1695
A New Derivation of the Quadrupole Formula for Gravitational Radiation
S. PERSIDES
1701
Testing the Local SO (3,1) Invariance of Gravity at the Planetary Level
V.DESABBATA and M.GASPERINI
1709
Spin Dynamics in General Relativity M.M. SOM, M.L. BEDRAN and
E.P.VASCONCELLOS-VAIDYA
1715
A Note on the Behaviour of the Curvature Tensor near Space-Time Singularities
L.B. SZABADOS
1719
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR GRAVITY
Translation of Absolute Evolution Laws of a Continuous System in One Comoving Physical Frame of Reference - Some Exact Solutions
G.CARICATO
1725
Theoretical Properties of Gravitational Fields Derived from Properties of Light
R.A. VERA
1743
New Theory of Gravitation
H.YILMAZ
1753
HISTORY OF GENERAL RELATIVITY - Chairman: M. de Maria
Waves in Five Dimensions and Quantum Physics in 0. Klein's Paper of 1926
S. BERGIA, G. D'ANGELO and V. MONZONI
1795
Einstein's Path Toward the Generally Covariant Formulation of Gravitational Field Equations: The Contribution of TuIho Levi-Civita
C. CATTANI and M. DE MARIA
1805
On the History of the Schwarzschilcr Singularity : 1915~1923
J. EISENSTAEDT
1827
Relativity and Atomic Theory Before Quantum Mechanics
H. KRAGH
1829
Einsteins's Discovery of the Field Equations of General Relativity: Some Milestones
J.NORTON
1837
The Reception of Relativity in Spain (1908-1923)
A. ROCA
1849
What a Physicist Can Learn From the Discovery of General Relativity
J.STACHEL
1857