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- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 807)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Three Physics Visions
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Front Matter
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Afterthoughts
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Back Matter
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About this book
Aside from the obvious statement that it should be a theory capable of unifying general relativity and quantum field theory, not much is known about the true nature of quantum gravity.
New ideas - and there are many of them for this is an exciting field of research - often diverge to a degree where it seems impossible to decide in which of the many possible direction(s) the ongoing developments should be further sustained.
The division of the book in two (overlapping) parts reflects the duality between the physical vision and the mathematical construction. The former is represented by tutorial reviews on non-commutative geometry, on space-time discretization and renormalization and on gauge field path integrals. The latter one by lectures on cohomology, on stochastic geometry and on mathematical tools for the effective action in quantum gravity.
The book will benefit everyone working or entering the field of quantum gravity research.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This volume contains the extended proceedings of the Summer School: New Paths Towards Quantum Gravity held in Holbæk, in Denmark. … I really recommend this book for your personal library. It is one of the best physics books I have been in contact in the last years.” (Philosophy, Religion and Science Book Reviews, bookinspections.wordpress.com, January, 2014)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Paths Towards Quantum Gravity
Editors: Bernhelm Booß-Bavnbek, G. Esposito, Matthias Lesch
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11897-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-11896-8Published: 04 June 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-11897-5Published: 23 July 2010
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 350
Topics: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Convex and Discrete Geometry