Birth of the universe and fundamental physics. Proceedings of the international workshop held in Rome, Italy, 18-21 May 1994 (Q1898264)

This volume contains invited talks and contributed papers presented at the international workshop ``Birth of the universe and fundamental physics'' held in Rome (Italy) in 1994, hosting 98 participants. The papers of this volume shall be mentioned by their titles only (not all papers are listed in the following). Contents: Part I -- Quantum and classical \textit{A. Yu. Kamenshchik}, Wave function of the universe and particle physics (3-10); \textit{V. Belinsky}, Gravitational topological charge (11- 16); \textit{L. Pietronero, F. Sylos Labini}, Cosmological principle and the debate about large-scale structure distribution (17-24); \textit{L. Kofman}, Statistics of cosmological inhomogeneities (25-34); \textit{E. W. Kolb, M. Abney, E. J. Copeland, A. R. Liddle, J. E. Lidsey}, The potential of potential reconstruction (35-44); \textit{K. Maeda}, Naturalness of inflation (45-52); \textit{J. E. Lidsey}, Inflation and gravitational waves (53-60); \textit{A. Mezhlumian}, Stationary universe model: Inputs and outputs (61-70); \textit{M. Gasperini}, The inflationary role of the dilation in string cosmology (71-78); and 21 contributed papers. Part II -- Large-scale structure: 10 Invited talks and 18 contributed talks. Part III -- Physics Invited talks: \textit{A. Albrecht}, The theory of everything vs. the theory of anything (323-332); \textit{M. Gleiser}, Baryogenesis in brief (333-342); \textit{I. M. Khalatnikov}, The complex scalar field, instantons and inflationary universes (343-352); \textit{M. Yu. Khlopov, A. S. Sakharov}, Cosmoparticle physics of family symmetry breaking (353-362); \textit{A. Linde}, Recent progress in inflationary cosmology (363-372); \textit{I. D. Novikov}, Black holes, wormholes, and time machines (373-378); \textit{J. Silk}, Concluding remarks (379-383).