Gravitation and Quantizations
Proceedings of the Les Houches Summer School, Session LVII, 5 July-1 August 1992
Elsevier (Publisher)
Published in September 1995
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Hardback
986 pages
978-0-444-82076-1 (ISBN)
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Quantum field theory over a fixed geometry provides, at present, the most fundamental description of physical phenomena except for gravitation, which requires a fluctuating (pseudo-)Riemannian structure. The aim of this book is to combine the work of the two communities of field theorists and general relativists, so fostering cooperation and progress. Traditional domains of interaction have been perturbation theory, special solutions, black hole evaporation and more recently, cosmology. Future avenues which are becoming discernible are: measurement theory and the analysis of the frontier between the classical domains and quantum situations; classical spacetime as a derived concept (twister programme, string theory, Ashtekar variables ...), string field theory and hidden symmetries for extended objects; and algebraic field theory and non-commutative geometry.
Quantum field theory over a fixed geometry provides, at present, the most fundamental description of physical phenomena except for gravitation, which requires a fluctuating (pseudo-)Riemannian structure. The aim of this book is to combine the work of the two communities of field theorists and general relativists, so fostering cooperation and progress. Traditional domains of interaction have been perturbation theory, special solutions, black hole evaporation and more recently, cosmology. Future avenues which are becoming discernible are: measurement theory and the analysis of the frontier between the classical domains and quantum situations; classical spacetime as a derived concept (twister programme, string theory, Ashtekar variables ...), string field theory and hidden symmetries for extended objects; and algebraic field theory and non-commutative geometry.
Quantum field theory over a fixed geometry provides, at present, the most fundamental description of physical phenomena except for gravitation, which requires a fluctuating (pseudo-)Riemannian structure. The aim of this book is to combine the work of the two communities of field theorists and general relativists, so fostering cooperation and progress. Traditional domains of interaction have been perturbation theory, special solutions, black hole evaporation and more recently, cosmology. Future avenues which are becoming discernible are: measurement theory and the analysis of the frontier between the classical domains and quantum situations; classical spacetime as a derived concept (twister programme, string theory, Ashtekar variables ...), string field theory and hidden symmetries for extended objects; and algebraic field theory and non-commutative geometry.
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Oxford
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Part 1 Gravitation: course 1 - gravitation and experiment, T. Damour; course 2 - quantum field theory in curved space-time, R.M. Wald; seminar 1 - covariant nonlocal effective action in gauge theories and quantum gravity, A.O. Barvinsky; seminar 2 - the unification of black holes with ordinary matter, G. 't Hooft; course 3 - mathematical problems of non-perturbative quantum general relativity, A. Ashtekar; course 4 - spacetime quantum mechanics and the quantum mechanics of spacetime, J.B. Hartle. Part 2 Quantum models: course 5 - topics in string theory and quantum gravity, L. Alvarez-Gaume and M.A. Vazquez-Mozo; seminar 3 - solvable extensions of two-dimensional gravity, P. van Nieuwenhuizen; course 6 - closed-string field theory - an introduction, B. Zwiebach; course 7 - simplicial quantum gravity and random lattices, F. David; course 8 - matrix models of two-dimensional quantum gravity, E. Brezin; course 9 - a few projects in string theory, A.M. Polyakov; course 10 - non-commutative geometry and physics, A. Connes.