ENGLISH

Heat Kernel and Quantum Gravity

By Ivan G. Avramidi

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2000
ISBN
9783540671558, 3540671552
Open Library ID
OL9063267M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6723036 bytes)
Series
LNPM 64
Edition
1
Pages
128\128
Library
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Time added
2009-10-26 15:40:52

Description

This book tackles quantum gravity via the so-called background field method and its effective action functional. The author presents an explicitly covariant and effective technique to calculate the de Witt coefficients and to analyze the Schwinger-de Wit asymptotic expansion of the effective action. He also investigates the ultraviolet behaviour of higher-derivative quantum gravity. The book addresses theoretical physicists, graduate students as well as researchers, but should also be of interest to physicists working in mathematical or elementary particle physics.

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