Steven M. Christensen Publications

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Effect of Plastic Deformation on Magnetomechanical Damping in Nickel (with R.C. Frank and S.E. Nelson), J. Appl. Phys. 42, 279-281 (1972).
Well-Known Maximally Slicing a Black Hole (with Frank Estabrook, Hugo Wahlquist, Bryce Dewitt, Larry Smarr, and Elaine Tsiang), Phys. Rev. D7, 2814-2817 (1973).
Covariant Coordinate Space Methods for Calculations in the Quantum Theory of Gravity, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Texas, 157 pages (1975).
Famous Vacuum Expectation Value of the Stress Tensor in an Arbitrary Curved Background: The Covariant Point-Separation Method, Phys. Rev. D14, 2490-2501 (1976).
Famous Trace Anomalies and the Hawking Effect (with S.A. Fulling), Phys. Rev. D15, 2088-2104 (1977).
Trace Anomalies and the Hawking Effect (with S.A. Fulling), Translated into Russian and reprinted in the book Dhyornyye Dyry (Black Holes), (Mir Press, Moscow) (1978).
Well-Known Energy-Momentum Tensor of a Massless Quantum Scalar Field in a Robertson-Walker Universe (with P.C.W. Davies, S.A. Fulling, and T.S. Bunch), Ann. Phys. 109, 108-142 (1977).
Very Well-Known Regularization, Renormalization and Covariant Geodesic Point-Separation, Phys. Rev. D17, 946-963 (1978).
Very Well-Known Axial and Conformal Anomalies for Arbitrary Spin in Gravity and Supergravity (with M.J. Duff), Phys.Lett. 76B, 571-574 (1978).
Very Well-Known Quantum Gravity in 2+epsilon Dimensions (with M.J. Duff), Phys. Lett. 79B, 213-216 (1978).
Flat Space as a Gravitational Instanton (with M.J. Duff), Nucl. Phys. B146, 11-19 (1978).
Massive Quantum Field Theory in Two-Dimensional Robertson-Walker Spacetime (with T.S. Bunch and S.A. Fulling), Phys. Rev. D8, 4435-4459 (1978).
Very Well-Known New Gravitational Index Theorems and Super Theorems (with M.J. Duff), Nucl. Phys. B154, 301-342 (1979).
Chirality, Self-Duality and Supergravity Counterterms (with S. Deser, M.J. Duff, and M.T. Grisaru), Phys. Lett. 84B, 411-415 (1979).
Second and Fourth Order Invariants on Curved Manifolds with Torsion, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 13, 3001-3009 (1980).
Well-Known Vanishing One-Loop beta Function in Gauged N>4 Supergravity (with M.J. Duff, G.W. Gibbons and M. Rocek), Phys. Rev. Lett. 45, 161-164 (1980).
Very Well-Known Quantizing Gravity with a Cosmological Constant (with M.J. Duff), Nucl. Phys. B170, 480-506 (1980).
Quantizing Fourth Order Gravity Theories, in The Quantum Structure of Space and Time, edited by M.J. Duff and C.J. Isham (Cambridge University Press) 71-86 (1982).
Arbitrary Spin Field Equations on Curved Manifolds with Torsion (with N. Barth), J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 16, 543-563 (1983).
Very Well-Known Quantizing Fourth Order Gravity Theories. The Functional Integral (with N. Barth), Phys. Rev. D28, 876-1893 (1983).
(Book) Quantum Theory of Gravity: Essays in Honor of the 60th Birthday of Bryce S. DeWitt (Editor, Adam Hilger Ltd., Bristol, UK) 483 pages (1984).
The World of the Schwinger-DeWitt Algorithm and the Magical a2 Coefficient, in Quantum Theory of Gravity: Essays in Honor of the 60th Birthday of Bryce S. DeWitt (Adam Hilger Ltd., Bristol, UK) 53-65 (1984).
Supermicrocomputers: Proceedings of the Workshop on the Applications of Supermicrocomputer Workstations in Physics and Astronomy, held in Chapel Hill, NC, January 20-22, 1984.
Pushing Out the Boundaries of Gravity Theory, in Quantum Field Theory and Quantum Statistics, edited by I.A. Batalin, C.J. Isham and G.A. Vilkovisky (Adam Hilger, UK) 165-193 (1987).
Toward the Optimal Scientific Computing Environment, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Physics, Beijing, China, edited by D.H. Feng (World Scientific) (1989).
Monstrous Computing, in Unix Review magazine, December 1988.
The SPARCstation 1GX: A User's First Impressions, README Newsletter, Summer (1989).
MathTensor, A System for Performing Tensor Analysis by Computer (with L. Parker), Manual and Software written in the Mathematica symbolic manipulation system, sold by MathTensor, Inc. (1991-Present).
MathTensor: A System for Performing Tensor Analysis by Computer (with L. Parker), The Mathematica Journal, 1, Issue 1. (1991).
Symbolic vs. Numerical Computations, The Mathematica Journal, 1, Issue 3 (1991).
A Short Story about Integration, The Mathematica Journal, 1, Issue 4 (1991).
Moving MathTensor to 2.0 (with L. Parker), The Mathematica Journal, 2, Issue 1 (1992).
Topics in PostScript and Electronic Mail, The Mathematica Journal, 2, Issue 2 (1992).
Determinants, a classic computation problem, The Mathematica Journal, 2, Issue 4 (1992).
Frequently asked questions, The Mathematica Journal, 3, Issue 1 (1993).
History, nohup, and the end.m, The Mathematica Journal, 3, Issue 2 (1993).
Computer methods in general relativity: algebraic computing, Proceedings of the GR13 Conference, 1992, IOP Publishing Ltd.
(Book) MathTensor, A System for Performing Tensor Analysis by Computer (with L. Parker) (Addison-Wesley, Redwood City, 1994.).
Resources for Computer Algebra (feature article), Computers in Physics, 8, Number 3, May/June (1994).
Porting Public Domain Software to Solaris, Proceedings of the Sun Education and Research Conference (1995).
Computational Challenges in Heat Kernel Calculations, Proceedings of the Winnipeg Conference on Heat Kernel Techniques, Texas A&M Press (1995).
Applications of Mathematica to Fiber Research, Proceeding of the EFS Conference, Raleigh, NC (1994).
Large scale tensor analysis by computer, in Computer Physics Communications, 115, 245-263 (1998).
(Book) Bryce DeWitt's Lectures on Gravitation (Editor, Springer) 320 pages (2011).

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