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Quantum Gravity, Quantum Cosmology and Lorentzian Geometries

By Giampiero Esposito (auth.) , Secod Corrected (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Year
1994
ISBN
978-3-540-57521-4, 978-3-540-47295-7
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-47295-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2959343 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs 12
Pages
2nd, corr. and enlarged ed., XVIII, 354 p.\363
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Information and Physics; Relativity and Cosmology;Quantum Physics; Quantum Computing

Description

The first aim of this book is to describe recent work on the problem of boundary conditions in one-loop quantum cosmology. The motivation is to understand whether supersymmetric theories are one-loop finite in the presence of boundaries. The second aim of the book is to present a recent, entirely new study of the singularity problem for space-times with torsion. The book is written in self-contained form. In many cases problems have been initially formulated in the simplest possible way, and finally presented and solved at increasing levels of complexity. Readers will find here a detailed and updated study of quantum cosmology, its motivation, and application to perturbative quantum gravity. Moreover, this is the first book which enables the reader to learn techniques used in classical gravity and quantum cosmology. The second edition adds new material to both the text and the bibliography.

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