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Contents:

Preface
1. Neutron Stars and Pulsars, page 1.
N.K. Glendenning
2. Magnetized Neutron Stars: an overview, page 11.
A. Goyal
3. Origin and Evolution of Neutron Star Magnetic Fields, page 33.
A. Reisenegger
4. Collapse and Flattening of Nucleon Bags in Ultra-Strong Magnetic Fields, page 51.
S. Mandal, S. Chakrabarty
5. Analytic Results for the Magnetized Electron Gas, page 63.
O. Espinosa
6. The Magnetic Stress Tensor in Magnetized Matter, page 75.
O. Espinosa, A. Reisenegger
7. Spin-Down Power of Magnetars, page 83.
B. Zhang
8. Quantum Magnetic Collapse and Magnetar Instability, page 97.
A. Pérez Martínez, H. Pérez Rojas, H.J. Mosquera Cuesta
9. Neutrino Pair Syncrotron Emission from Magnetars, page 113.
J.A. de Freitas Pacheco, T. Regimbau
10. Energy Transport by Axions in a Magnetar Birth: can it power a gamma-ray burst?, page 121
M.P. Allen, J.E. Horvath
11. Study on Pulsar Emission and Related Issues: an overview, page 133.
G.J. Qiao, H.G. Wang, Y.Q. Xue, R.X. Xu, K.J. Lee
12. Effects of Strong Magnetic Fields in Neutron Star and Gravitational Wave Emission, page 149.
G.F. Marranghello
13. R-Modes and Steady Gravitational Radiation from Millisecond Pulsars, page 165.
A. Reisenegger, A. Bonacic
14. Vacuum Pressures and Energy in a Strong Magnetic Field, page 177.
H. Pérez Rojas, E.R. Querts
15. Symmetries, Dynamical Evolution of Phase Transition and Nugget Formation, page 189.
A. Goyal
16. Exploding Bose-Einstein Condensates and Collapsing Neutron Stars Driven by Critical Magnetic Fields, page 205.
H. Pérez Rojas, A. Pérez Martínez, H.J. Mosquera Cuesta
17. Neutron Stars, Protoneutron Stars, Vacuum Corrections and Gravitational Waves in Nonlinear Relativistic QHD Models: an overview, page 211.
C.A.Z. Vasconcellos, J.A. de Freitas Pacheco
18. Neutron stars and Naturalness in Effective Nonlinear Relativistic Models, page 227.
C.A.Z. Vasconcellos, M. Dillig
19. Color-Flavor Locked Equations of State and Compact Stars, 245.
J.E. Horvath, G. Lugones
20. Electrically Charged Neutron Stars, 253.
M. Malheiro, S. Ray, V.T. Zanchin
21. Interaction of Electromagnetic Radiation with Supercritical Magnetic Field, 271.  
A.E. Shabad
22. Scalar Fields and Models of the Universe, 287.  
R. Cardenas
23. Predictions for Supernovae Type IA Observations, 297.  
T. Gonzalez, R. Cardenas, Y. Leyva
24. Summary, 305.  
J.E. Horvath