Christian Fronsdal

Theoretical Elementary Particle

Office: 4-941 PAB
Phone: (310) 825-3432
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Educational Background:

• Ph.D., UCLA, 1957

Research Interest:

Prof. Fronsdal has long been working in Elementary Particles and General Realitivty. But his present interests are in astrophysics and the supporting sciences of thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, atmospheric science, etc.

Selected Recent Publications (link to LANL archive)

1. Completion and Embedding of the Schwarzschild Solution, Phys. Rev. 116, 778 (1959).
2. Simple Groups and Strong Interaction Symmetries (with R. E. Behrends, J. Dreitlein and B. W. Lee), Rev. Mod. Phys. 34, 1 (1962).
3. Regge-Pole Exchange in Classical Physics and Nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics (with G. Cocho, I. Grodsky and V. G. Kadyshevsky), Phys. Rev. 168, 1766 (1968).
4. Static Limit of Field Theories. I (with R. W. Huff), Phys. Rev. D 6, 2755 (1972).
5. Elementary Particles in a Curved Space IV. Massless Particles, Phys. Rev. D12, 3819 (1975).
6. Deformation Theory and Quantization.
   I. Deformations and Symplectic Structures (with F. Bayen, M. Flato, A. Lichnerowicz and D. Sternheimer), Ann. Phys. 111, 61 (1978).
   II. Physical Applications (with F. Bayen, M. Flato, A. Lichnerowicz and D. Sternheimer), Ann. Phys. 111, 111 (1978).
7. Massless Fields with Integer Spin, Phys. Rev. D18, 3624 (1978).
8. Massless Fields with Half-Integral Spin (with J. Fang), Phys. Rev. D 18, 3630 (1978).
9. Singletons and Massless, Integer Spin Fields on de Sitter Space, Phys. Rev. D 20, 848 (1979).
10. Smooth Massless Limit of Field Theories, Nucl. Phys. B 167, 237 (1980).
11. Massless, Half-Integral Spin Fields on de Sitter Space (with J. Fang), Phys. Rev. D 22, 1361 (1980).
12. Quantum Field Theory of Singletons. The Rac (with M. Flato), J. Math. Phys. 22, 1100 (1981).
13. Quantization on the Sphere (with F. Bayen), J. Math. Phys. 22, 1345 (1981).
14. The Dirac Supermultiplet, Phys. Rev. D 26, 1988 (1982).
15. What is a Covariant Derivative?, JGP 7, 305-338 (1990).
16. A Model for QCD in Three Dimensions, in The Proceedings of the Colloque Rideau, Paris, January 1995.
17. Massive Gravitons (with F. L. Chan), Ann. Phys. 248, 220 (1996).
18. Generalization and Exact Deformations of Quantum Groups, Publications of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences 33, 91-149 (1997).
19. Quasi-Hopf Deformations of Quantum Groups, Lett. Math. Phys. 40, 117-134 (1997).
20. Harrison Cohomology and Abelian Deformations in Algebraic Varieties, IRMA Lect. Math. Phys. 1 (2002).
21. Quantization on Curves (with an appendix by M. Kontsevich), Lett.Math.Phys. 79 209-129 (2007).
22. Deformation Quantization on Singular Coadjoint Orbits, LMP 2009.
23. Growth of a Black Hole, J. Geom. Phys. 57, 167-177 (2006).
24. Ideal Stars and General Relativity, Gen.Rel.Grav. 39 1971-2000 (2007).
25. Cosmology with an Action Principle (in preparation).
26. Stability of Polytropes, Phys.Rev. D 77 (2008).
27. Reissner-Nordstrom and Charged Polytropes, Lett. Math.Phys. 82, 255-273 (2007)
28. Heat and Gravitation. I. The Action Principle, to be submitted for publication.
29. Heat and Gravitation. II Stability Criteria. To be submitted for publication.