Preface. Quantum Gravity in the Southern Cone Mario A. CastagninoCarmen A. Nunez OriginalPaper Pages: 1029 - 1031
Black Hole Formation by Canonical Dynamics of Gravitating Shells: An Equatorial View Karel V. Kuchar OriginalPaper Pages: 1033 - 1049
Canonical Quantum Gravity on the Space of Vassiliev Invariants Rodolfo Gambini OriginalPaper Pages: 1063 - 1080
The Large-N Limit of Superconformal Field Theories and Supergravity Juan Maldacena OriginalPaper Pages: 1113 - 1133
World-Volume Fields and Background Coupling of Branes Martin Cederwall OriginalPaper Pages: 1135 - 1148
Gauge Enhancement and Chirality Changes in Nonperturbative Orbifold Models G. Aldazabal OriginalPaper Pages: 1149 - 1159
Formally Renormalizable Gravitationally Self-Interacting String Models Brandon Carter OriginalPaper Pages: 1173 - 1180
Gauge Supergravities for All Odd Dimensions Ricardo TroncosoJorge Zanelli OriginalPaper Pages: 1181 - 1206
Primordial Black Holes: Pair Creation, Lorentzian Condition, and Evaporation Raphael BoussoStephen W. Hawking OriginalPaper Pages: 1227 - 1252
Fluctuations in a Thermal Field and Dissipation of a Black Hole Spacetime: Far-Field Limit Antonio CamposB. L. Hu OriginalPaper Pages: 1253 - 1271
Adiabatic Interpretation of Particle Creation in a de Sitter Universe C. Molina-Paris OriginalPaper Pages: 1273 - 1297
Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Quantum Fields in Inflationary Cosmology S. A. Ramsey OriginalPaper Pages: 1299 - 1314
The Classical Regime of a Quantum Universe Obtained Through a Functional Method Mario Castagnino OriginalPaper Pages: 1333 - 1348
Decoherence and Correlations in Semiclassical Cosmology M. CastagninoS. Landau OriginalPaper Pages: 1349 - 1358
Causal Statistical Mechanics Calculation of Initial Cosmic Entropy and Quantum Gravity Prospects Osvaldo M. Moreschi OriginalPaper Pages: 1373 - 1383
Black Hole–D-Brane Correspondence: An Example Matteo BertoliniPietro FreClaudio A. Scrucca OriginalPaper Pages: 1385 - 1397