Quantum General Relativity (QGR), sometimes called Loop Quantum Gravity, has matured over the past fifteen years to a mathematically rigorous candidate quantum field theory of the gravitational field. The features that distinguish it from other quantum gravity theories are 1) background independence
Lectures on Quantum Gravity
✍ Scribed by Andres Gomberoff, Donald Marolf
- Book ID
- 127431324
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Series
- Series of the Centro de Estudios Cientificos 1571-571X
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 0387249923
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✦ Synopsis
The 2002 Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute School on Quantum Gravity was held at the Centro de Estudios Cientificos (CECS),Valdivia, Chile, January 4-14, 2002. The school featured lectures by ten speakers, and was attended by nearly 70 students from over 14 countries. A primary goal was to foster interaction and communication between participants from different cultures, both in the layman’s sense of the term and in terms of approaches to quantum gravity. We hope that the links formed by students and the school will persist throughout their professional lives, continuing to promote interaction and the essential exchange of ideas that drives research forward.
This volume contains improved and updated versions of the lectures given at the School. It has been prepared both as a reminder for the participants, and so that these pedagogical introductions can be made available to others who were unable to attend. We expect them to serve students of all ages well.
✦ Subjects
Квантовая гравитация
📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES
The purpose of these notes is to present an up to date status report of a program for non-perturbative, canonical quantization of gravity in 3+1 dimensions. A number of the key ideas in the program were developed just prior to and during a six-month workshop on quantum gravity held at the Institute