Steven M. Christensen Publications

• 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 (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) Lectures on Relativity, Stanford, 1971 by Bryce S. Dewitt (Editor, to be published by Springer-Verlag) ~300 pages (2009).

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