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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- The issue of fundamental interactions.- Life and work of Antonio Aurilia.- The Physics from the electroweak to the Planck scale.- Particle sectors beyond the Standard Model.- Noncommutative and nonlocal quantum field theory.- Supergravity, superstrings and quantum gravity.- Evaporating black holes and black hole thermodynamics.- Quantum pregeometry and Planckian black holes.- Analogue gravity systems.- Higher dimensional spacetimes and terascale quantum gravity.- Dimensionally reduced Universe and Planck time cosmology.- Future perspectives.- Summary of the proposed results and potential developments.- Experimental observations in the near future.- Final remarks and conclusions.
Contributors: Robert Balbinot (Bologna U. & INFN, Bologna), Patricio Gaete (CCTVal, Valparaiso & Santa Maria U., Valparaiso), José A. Helayël-Neto (Rio de Janeiro, CBPF), Robert Mann (Waterloo U. & Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys.), Jonas Mureika (LMU, Los Angeles), Hermann Nicolai (Potsdam, MaxPlanck Inst.), Douglas Singleton (Fresno State), Anais Smailagic (INFN, Trieste), Euro Spallucci (Trieste U. & INFN, Trieste), Paul K. Townsend (Cambridge U., DAMPT).
