The statistical description of a system containing a large number of particles which interact
via Newtonian gravity is discussed. Such a system exhibits several peculiarities due to the …

The recent developments in particle physics and cosmology suggest that scalar fields may
have played an important role in the evolution of the early Universe and that they may make …

In 1979 I gave graduate courses at the University of Zurich and lectured in the'Troisieme
Cycle de la Suisse Romande'(a consortium offour uni versities in the french-speaking part of …

Why is ordinary matter (eg, atoms, molecules, people, planets, stars) as stable as it is? Why
is it the case, if an atom is thought to be a miniature solar system, that bringing very large …

We discuss the nature of phase transitions in self-gravitating systems. We show the
connection between the binary star model of Padmanabhan, the thermodynamics of stellar …

We discuss the adequate treatment of the three-and four-body dynamics for the quark model
picture of double-charm baryons and tetraquarks. We stress that the variational and Born …

This book is based on the premise that the entropy concept, a fundamental element of
probability theory as logic, governs all of thermal physics, both equilibrium and …

In the more than half century since the semiclassical Thomas-Fermi theory of the atom was
introduced, there have been literally thousands of publications based on that theory; they …

How and why could an interacting system of many particles be described as if all particles
were independent and identically distributed? This question is at least as old as statistical …

This article is an attempt to bring together and survey various results that generalize and
improve on the Heisenberg uncertainty prinCiple. These results might be called local …