A first course in loop quantum gravity:
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Main Author: Gambini, Rodolfo (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2011
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-179) and index
1. Why quantize gravity? -- 2. Special relativity and electromagnetism -- 3. Some elements of general relativity -- 4. Hamiltonian mechanics including constraints and fields -- 5. Yang-Mills theories -- 6. Quantum mechanics and elements of quantum field theory -- 7. General relativity in terms of Ashtekar's new variables -- 8. Loop representation for general relativity -- 9. An application: loop quantum cosmology -- 10. Further developments -- 11. Open issues and controversies
Loop quantum gravity is one of the modern contenders for a unified description of quantum mechanics and gravity. Up to now no book has covered the material at the level of a college student or of other readers with some knowledge of college level physics. This book fills that gap
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 183 p.)
ISBN:0191003239
0199590753
1299559336
9780191003233
9780199590759
9781299559332

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