The pursuit of quantum gravity: memoirs of Bryce DeWitt from 1946 to 2004
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 1
WHY PHYSICS? 1
WHY QUANTUM GRAVITY? WHY LINK QUANTUM GRAVITY AND BRYCE DEWITT'S
MEMOIRS? 5
I PROGRESS IN QUANTUM PHYSICS SINCE THE LATE FORTIES 13
1.1 FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION AS A MAJOR TECHNIQUE IN QUANTUM PHYSICS 13
1.2 THE GEOMETRY OF GAUGE FIELDS 17
1.2.1 CLASSICAL GAUGE FIELDS 17
1.2.2 QUANTUM GAUGE FIELDS 19
II PROGRESS IN GRAVITATION SINCE THE LATE FORTIES 25
II. 1 NUMERICAL RELATIVITY 25
II. 1.1 CLASSICAL RELATIVITY 25
II.1.2 TOY MODELS FOR QUANTUM GRAVITY 31
11.2 BRYCE DEWITT'S LECTURES ON RELATIVITY 36
11.3 THE 1973 ECLIPSE EXPEDITION 43
III QUANTUM GRAVITY 51
111.1 PH.D. THESIS (HARVARD 1950) 51
111.2 COVARIANT QUANTIZATION VS. CANONICAL QUANTIZATION 56 111.2.1
DIRAC'S CONSTRAINED HAMILTONIAN DYNAMICS 56 111.2.2 THE WHEELER-DEWITT
EQUATION 57
111.2.3 THE "TRILOGY" 60
111.3 THE GRAVITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ESSAY (1953) 61
111.4 THE INSTITUTE OF FIELD PHYSICS (1955-1964) 69
111.4.1 ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS 69
111.4.2 A STONE THROWN INTO A POOL AND ITS RIPPLES 79
XI
BIBLIOGRAFISCHE INFORMATIONEN HTTP://D-NB.INFO/1003136451
DIGITALISIERT DURCH
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111.5 THE 1957 CHAPEL HILL CONFERENCE 87
111.6 EVERETT'S THEORY AND THE "MANY WORLDS" INTERPRETATION 91 111.6.1
EVERETT'S THEORY VIEWED BY BRYCE DEWITT 94
111.6.2 EVERETT'S THEORY VIEWED BY JOHN WHEELER 97
111.7 RELATIVITY, GROUPS, AND TOPOLOGY 100
111.8 QUANTUM FIELD THEORY IN CURVED SPACETIME 104
111.9 SUPERMANIFOLDS 107
III. 10 THE GLOBAL APPROACH TO QUANTUM FIELD THEORY 110
III. 11 THE PURSUIT GOES ON 114
IV A FEW COMMENTS FROM BRYCE DEWITT 119
RV.L AMATEURS, CRACKPOTS, PROFESSIONALS, AND GRAVITATION 119 IV.2
RESEARCH CENTERS 121
V BIBLIOGRAPHY 123
V.I A BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR BY STEVEN WEINBERG 123
V.2 PUBLICATIONS 131
V.3 CURRICULUM VITAE 140
V.4 ARCHIVES STORED AT THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN HISTORY 145
ABOUT THE AUTHOR 147
NAME INDEX 149
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