1. Preface. Quantum Gravity in the Southern Cone

   • Mario A. Castagnino
   • Carmen A. Nunez

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1029 - 1031

2. Black Hole Formation by Canonical Dynamics of Gravitating Shells: An Equatorial View

   • Karel V. Kuchar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1033 - 1049

3. An Overview of Canonical Quantum Gravity

   • Jorge Pullin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1051 - 1061

4. Canonical Quantum Gravity on the Space of Vassiliev Invariants

   • Rodolfo Gambini

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1063 - 1080

5. Midisuperspace Models of Canonical Quantum Gravity

   • C. G. Torre

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1081 - 1102

6. Building a Quantum Spacetime

   • Carlos N. Kozameh

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1103 - 1112

7. The Large-N Limit of Superconformal Field Theories and Supergravity

   • Juan Maldacena

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1113 - 1133

8. World-Volume Fields and Background Coupling of Branes

   • Martin Cederwall

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1135 - 1148

9. Gauge Enhancement and Chirality Changes in Nonperturbative Orbifold Models

   • G. Aldazabal

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1149 - 1159

10. Comments on Chiral p-Forms

    • Xavier Bekaert
    • Marc Henneaux

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1161 - 1172

11. Formally Renormalizable Gravitationally Self-Interacting String Models

    • Brandon Carter

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1173 - 1180

12. Gauge Supergravities for All Odd Dimensions

    • Ricardo Troncoso
    • Jorge Zanelli

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1181 - 1206

13. Black Hole Radiation and S-matrix

    • J. G. Russo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1207 - 1225

14. Primordial Black Holes: Pair Creation, Lorentzian Condition, and Evaporation

    • Raphael Bousso
    • Stephen W. Hawking

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1227 - 1252

15. Fluctuations in a Thermal Field and Dissipation of a Black Hole Spacetime: Far-Field Limit

    • Antonio Campos
    • B. L. Hu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1253 - 1271

16. Adiabatic Interpretation of Particle Creation in a de Sitter Universe

    • C. Molina-Paris

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1273 - 1297

17. Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Quantum Fields in Inflationary Cosmology

    • S. A. Ramsey

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1299 - 1314

18. Magnetic Fields in the Early Universe

    • H. R. Rubinstein

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1315 - 1332

19. The Classical Regime of a Quantum Universe Obtained Through a Functional Method

    • Mario Castagnino

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1333 - 1348

20. Decoherence and Correlations in Semiclassical Cosmology

    • M. Castagnino
    • S. Landau

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1349 - 1358

21. The Fluid of Primordial Fluctuations

    • Mariana Grana

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1359 - 1371

22. Causal Statistical Mechanics Calculation of Initial Cosmic Entropy and Quantum Gravity Prospects

    • Osvaldo M. Moreschi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1373 - 1383

23. Black Hole–D-Brane Correspondence: An Example

    • Matteo Bertolini
    • Pietro Fre
    • Claudio A. Scrucca

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1385 - 1397