• Professor

• BA (Oxford University), MS, PhD (Weizmann Institute)

• Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3046

• e-mail: philip.mannheim@uconn.edu

• phone: 860-486-3691 (office); 860-486-4915 (physics department)

• fax: 860-486-3346

• primary home page http://www.phys.uconn.edu/faculty/mannheim.html

• this home page last update: July 2007

• Research Interests: elementary particle theory, general relativity, astrophysics, astroparticle physics, cosmology.

• Recent Publications

• P. D. Mannheim, Conformal cosmology with no cosmological constant, General Relativity and Gravitation 22, 289 (1990).

• P. D. Mannheim and D. Kazanas, Exact vacuum solution to conformal Weyl gravity and galactic rotation curves, Astrophysical Journal 342, 635 (1989).

• D. Kazanas and P. D. Mannheim, General structure of the gravitational equations of motion in conformal Weyl gravity, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 76, 431 (1991).

• P. D. Mannheim and D. Kazanas, Solutions to the Reissner-Nordstrom, Kerr and Kerr-Newman problems in fourth order conformal Weyl gravity, Physical Review D 44, 417 (1991).

• P. D. Mannheim, Conformal gravity and the flatness problem, Astrophysical Journal 391, 429 (1992).

• P. D. Mannheim, Dynamical mass and geodesic motion, General Relativity and Gravitation, 25, 697 (1993).

• P. D. Mannheim, Linear potentials and galactic rotation curves, Astrophysical Journal, 419, 150 (1993). (hep-ph/9212304)

• P. D. Mannheim and D. Kazanas, Newtonian limit of conformal gravity and the lack of necessity of the second order Poisson equation, General Relativity and Gravitation, 26, 337 (1994).

• P. D. Mannheim, Open questions in classical gravity, Foundations of Physics 24, 487 (1994). (gr-qc/9306025)

• P. D. Mannheim, Linear potentials in galaxies and clusters of galaxies, UCONN-95-02 March 1995, astro-ph/9504022.

• P. D. Mannheim, Cosmology and galactic rotation curves, UCONN-95-07, November 1995, astro-ph/9511045.

• P. D. Mannheim, Conformal cosmology and the age of the universe, UCONN-95-08, January 1996. (astro-ph/9601071)

• P. D. Mannheim and J. Kmetko, Linear potentials and galactic rotation curves - detailed fitting, UCONN-96-02, February 1996, astro-ph/9602094.

• P. D. Mannheim, Are galactic rotation curves really flat?, Astrophysical Journal 479, 659 (1997). (astro-ph/9605085)

• P. D. Mannheim, Classical underpinnings of gravitationally induced quantum interference, Physical Review A 57, 1260 (1998). (gr-qc/9611037)

• P. D. Mannheim, Local and global gravity, Foundations of Physics 26, 1683 (1996). (gr-qc/9611038)

• P. D. Mannheim, Curvature and cosmic repulsion, March 1998, astro-ph/9803135.

• P. D. Mannheim, Implications of cosmic repulsion for gravitational theory, Physical Review D 58, 103511 (1998). (astro-ph/9804335)

• P. D. Mannheim, Cosmic acceleration as the solution to the cosmological constant problem, Astrophysical Journal 561, 1 (2001). (astro-ph/9910093)

• P. D. Mannheim, Attractive and repulsive gravity, Foundations of Physics 30, 709 (2000). (gr-qc/0001011)

• P. D. Mannheim and A. Davidson, Fourth order theories without ghosts, January 2000, hep-th/0001115.

• P. D. Mannheim, Constraints on brane-localized gravity, Physical Review D 63, 024018 (2001). (hep-th/0005226).

• P. D. Mannheim, Constraints on AdS5 embeddings, Physical Review D 64, 065008 (2001). (hep-th/0009065)

• A. Davidson and P. D. Mannheim, Dynamical localization of gravity, September 2000, hep-th/0009064.

• P. D. Mannheim, Delta function singularities in the Weyl tensor at the brane, Physical Review D 64, 068501 (2001). (hep-th/0101047)

• P. D. Mannheim, How recent is cosmic acceleration?, International Journal of Modern Physics D 12, 893 (2003). (astro-ph/0104022)

• M. Y. Hu, W. Sturhahn, T. S. Toellner, P. D. Mannheim, D. E. Brown, J. Zhao, and E. E. Alp Measuring velocity of sound with nuclear resonant inelastic x-ray scattering, Physical Review B 67, 094304 (2003). (cond-mat/0212387)

• P. D. Mannheim and A. Davidson, Dirac quantization of the Pais-Uhlenbeck fourth order oscillator, Physical Review A 71, 042110 (2005). (hep-th/0408104)

• P. D. Mannheim, Alternatives to dark matter and dark energy, Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics 56, 340 (2006). (astro-ph/0505266)

• H. J. Lipkin and P. D. Mannheim, Bounds on localized modes in the crystal impurity problem, Physical Review B 73, 174105 (2006). (cond-mat/0510542)

• P. D. Mannheim, Arbitrary force-constant changes in the crystal impurity problem, Physical Review B 73, 184103 (2006). (cond-mat/0512188)

• P. D. Mannheim, Gauge invariant treatment of the energy carried by a gravitational wave, Physical Review D 74, 024019 (2006). (gr-qc/0601032)

• P. D. Mannheim and I. Simbotin, Completeness of non-normalizable modes, Journal of Physics A 39, 13783 (2006). (hep-th/0607090)

• P. D. Mannheim, Solution to the ghost problem in fourth order derivative theories, Foundations of Physics 37, 532 (2007). (hep-th/0608154)

• P. D. Mannheim, Schwarzschild limit of conformal gravity in the presence of macroscopic scalar fields, Physical Review D 75, 124006 (2007). (gr-qc/0703037)

• C. M. Bender and P. D. Mannheim, No-ghost theorem for the fourth-order derivative Pais-Uhlenbeck oscillator model, June 2007. (0706.0207 [hep-th])

• Recent Conference Presentations

• P. D. Mannheim and D. Kazanas, Exact vacuum solution to fourth order Weyl gravity, in Proceedings of the Storrs meeting, the fourth meeting (new series) of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society, University of Connecticut, August 1988. Edited by K. Haller, D. C. Caldi, M. M. Islam, R. L. Mallett, P. D. Mannheim, and M. S. Swanson, World Scientific Press, Singapore (1989).

• P. D. Mannheim, Some exact solutions to conformal Weyl gravity, in Nonlinear Problems in Relativity and Cosmology, Proceedings of the Sixth Florida Workshop on Nonlinear Astronomy, University of Florida, October 1990. Edited by J. R. Buchler, S. L. Detweiler, and J. R. Ipser, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 631, 194 (1991).

• P. D. Mannheim and D. Kazanas, Current status of conformal Weyl gravity, in Proceedings of the "After the First Three Minutes" Workshop, University of Maryland, October 1990. A. I. P. Conference Proceedings No. 222, edited by S. S. Holt, C. L. Bennett, and V. Trimble, A. I. P., N. Y. (1991).

• D. Kazanas and P. D. Mannheim, Dark matter or new physics?, in Proceedings of "After the First Three Minutes", University of Maryland, October 1990. A. I. P. Conference Proceedings No. 222, edited by S. S. Holt, C. L. Bennett, and V. Trimble, A. I. P., N. Y. (1991).

• P. D. Mannheim, Conformal gravity, cosmology and Newton's law, in Proceedings of the XXth International Conference on Differential Geometric Methods in Theoretical Physics, Baruch College/CUNY, New York, June 1991. Edited by S. Catto and A. Rocha, World Scientific Press, Singapore (1992).

• P. D. Mannheim, Four dimensional conformal gravity, confinement, and galactic rotation curves, in Proceedings of "PASCOS 94", the Fourth International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology, Syracuse, New York, May 1994. Edited by K. C. Wali, World Scientific Press, Singapore (1995). (gr-qc/9407010)

• P. D. Mannheim and D. Kazanas, Higgs mechanism and the structure of the energy-momentum tensor in Einstein gravity and conformal gravity, in Proceedings of the Seventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Stanford, California, July 1994. Edited by R. T. Jantzen and G. M. Keiser, World Scientific Press, Singapore (1996). (gr-qc/9409050)

• P. D. Mannheim, Microlensing, Newton-Einstein gravity, and conformal Gravity, in Proceedings of "Dark Matter", University of Maryland, October 1994. A. I. P. Conference Proceedings No. 336, edited by S. S. Holt and C. L. Bennett, A. I. P., N. Y. (1995). (astro-ph/9412007)

• P. D. Mannheim, Linear potentials in the cores of clusters of galaxies, in Proceedings of "Clusters, Lensing, and the Future of the Universe", University of Maryland, June 1995. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, Vol. 88, edited by V. Trimble and A. Reisenegger, A. S. P., San Francisco (1996). (astro-ph/9508045)

• P. D. Mannheim, Dark Matter: a challenge to standard gravity or a warning?, in Proceedings of 18th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Chicago, December 1996. Edited by A. Olinto, J. Frieman, and D. Schramm, World Scientific Press, Singapore (1998). (astro-ph/9701128)

• P. D. Mannheim, Imprint of the global Hubble flow on galactic rotation curves, in Proceedings of "Galactic Halos: A UC Santa Cruz Workshop", University of California at Santa Cruz, August 1997. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, Vol. 136, edited by D. Zaritsky, A. S. P., San Francisco (1998). (astro-ph/9712090)

• P. D. Mannheim, How we got into the dark matter fix and how we can get out, in Proceedings of "PASCOS 98", the Sixth International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology, Northeastern University, Boston, March 1998. Edited by P. Nath, World Scientific Press, Singapore, 1999. (astro-ph/9807122)

• P. D. Mannheim, The equivalence principle in classical mechanics and quantum mechanics, in "Photon: Old Problems in Light of New Ideas". Edited by Valeri V. Dvoeglazov, Nova Science Publishers, New York (2000). (gr-qc/9810087)

• P. D. Mannheim, Curvature, galactic dynamics and cosmic repulsion, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Galaxy Dynamics, Rutgers University, August 1998. Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, Vol. 182, edited by D. Merritt, J. A. Sellwood and M. Valluri, A. S. P., San Francisco (1999). (astro-ph/9811256)

• P. D. Mannheim, Conformal gravity and a naturally small cosmological constant, Proceedings of "20th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics", Austin, December 2000, J. C. Wheeler and H. Martel (Eds.), American Institute of Physics, NY (2001). (astro-ph/9901219)

• P. D. Mannheim, Cosmic acceleration and a natural solution to the cosmological constant problem, Proceedings of "The Role of Neutrinos, Strings, Gravity and Variable Cosmological Constant in Elementary Particle Physics", Coral Gables Conference, December 2000, B. N. Kursunoglu, S. L. Mintz and A. Perlmutter (Eds.), Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, NY (2001). (gr-qc/9903005)

• P. D. Mannheim, Is cosmic acceleration really recent?, Proceedings of "Cosmology and Elementary Particle Physics", Coral Gables Conference, December 2001, B. N. Kursunoglu, S. L. Mintz and A. Perlmutter (Eds.), American Institute of Physics, NY (2002). (astro-ph/0204202)

• P. D. Mannheim, Localization issues for Robertson-Walker branes, Proceedings of "Cosmology and Elementary Particle Physics", Coral Gables Conference, December 2001, B. N. Kursunoglu, S. L. Mintz and A. Perlmutter (Eds.), American Institute of Physics, NY (2002).

• P. D. Mannheim, Options for cosmology at redshifts above one, Proceedings of "Short Distance Behavior of Fundamental Interactions", Coral Gables Conference, December 2002, B. N. Kursunoglu, M. Camcigil, S. L. Mintz and A. Perlmutter (Eds.), American Institute of Physics, NY (2003). (astro-ph/0302362)

• P. D. Mannheim, The work of Behram Kursunoglu, Proceedings of "The Launching of La Belle Epoque of High Energy Physics and Cosmology", Coral Gables Conference, December 2003, T. Curtright, S. Mintz and A. Perlmutter (Eds.), World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore (2004). (gr-qc/0405035)

• P. D. Mannheim, Dark matter and dark energy -- fact or fantasy, Montreal-Rochester-Syracuse-Toronto Conference, Montreal, Canada, May 2004. International Journal of Modern Physics A19, 5333 (2004).

• P. D. Mannheim, Causality in the brane world, Proceedings of the 26th International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics, New York City, June 2006. S. Catto (Ed.). (hep-th/0607041)

• P. D. Mannheim, Conformal Gravity Challenges String Theory, Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology, Imperial College London, July 2007. A. Rajantie (Ed.). (0707.2283 [hep-th])

• Full Length Monograph

• P. D. Mannheim, Brane-localized gravity, World Scientific Publishing Company, Singapore (2005).