Eckehard W. Mielke

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Eckehard W. Mielke (born June 15, 1947 in Mönchevahlberg , Lower Saxony ) is a German theoretical physicist.

Mielke at the conference for Hermann Weyl's 100th birthday in Kiel 1985

Life

Mielke went to school in Hamburg and Kiel (Abitur 1966 at the Hebbelschule (Kiel) ) and studied physics at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel from 1968 to 1972 . In 1976 he received his doctorate magna cum laude in Kiel (Quantum Field Theory in De Sitter Space) and was visiting Princeton University (1973/74 with John Archibald Wheeler with a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation ), at Oxford University ( 1977 with Roger Penrose ) and at the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste (1980 to 1982, then under the direction of Abdus Salam ). In 1982 he completed his habilitation in Kiel (on the hypotheses on which geometrodynamics are based). In 1984 he passed his teaching degree in Kiel. He was a private lecturer at the University of Kiel and from 1984 to 1991 in the research group of Friedrich W. Hehl at the University of Cologne. In 1991/92 he pursued a career as a teacher at the Hebbelschule in Kiel and in 1993/94 he was a substitute professor at the University of Cologne. In 1995 he was initially visiting professor and from 1997 professor of physics at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa in Mexico City .

He deals with gauge theory formulations ( Poincaré gauge theory ), extensions of general relativity and the geometry of Yang-Mills theories ( color geometry ) and their quantization on the basis of (spontaneously) broken topological models. He also deals with the possibility of the existence of exotic stars (boson stars) as a scalar realization of Wheeler's geons and their soliton-like collisions.

He published a popular science book on astrophysics.

Fonts (selection)

  • Knot wormholes in geometrodynamics? , J. Gen. Relativity Grav. Volume 8, 1977, pp. 175-196. (reprinted in: Louis H. Kauffman (editor) Knots and Applications , World Scientific, Singapore 1995, pp. 229-250)
  • Geometrodynamics of Gauge Fields - On the geometry of Yang-Mills and gravitational gauge theories . Akademie Verlag 1987 (English version of the habilitation thesis, Geometrodynamik is a term coined by John Archibald Wheeler in the 1950s and 1960s for his search for unified theories based on general relativity)
  • with Fjodor V. Kusmartsev, Franz E. Schunck: Gravitational Stability of Boson Stars . In: Physical Review D , Volume 43, 1991, pp. 3895-3901
  • with Friedrich W. Hehl , JD McCrea, Yuval Ne'eman : Metric-affine gauge theories of gravity: field equations, Noether identities, world spinors and breaking of dilation invariance . In: Physics Reports , Volume 258, 1995, pp. 1-171, arxiv : gr-qc / 9402012
  • with Franz E. Schunck: Topical Review: General relativistic Boson stars . In: Classical and Quantum Gravity , Volume 20, 2003, R 301-356
  • Remarks on the geometrization of fundamental interactions in physics . In: Naturwissenschaften , Volume 72, 1985, pp. 118-124
  • Sun, moon and ... black holes. A foray into modern astrophysics . Vieweg / Teubner 1997, ISBN 3-528-06620-2 [Springer Book Archives]
  • with Jürgen Lemke, Friedrich W. Hehl: Equivalence principle for matter waves? Experiments with neutrons, atoms, neutrinos . In: Physics in Our Time , Volume 25, 1994, Issue 1
  • Symmetry Breaking in Topological Quantum Gravity . In: International Journal of Modern Physics D , Volume 22, 2013, Issue 5
  • with David Castañeda Valle: Solitonic Axion Condensates modeling Dark Matter Halos . In: Annals of Physics , Volume 336, 2013, 245-260

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Published in: Advances in Physics , Volume 25, 1977, pp. 401–457
personal data
SURNAME Mielke, Eckehard W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Mönchevahlberg , Lower Saxony