Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Ivan G. Avramidi
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
Volume: 64
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 0.80cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9783642086465
ISBN 10: 3642086462
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 08 December 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This monograph rightly belongs to a series 'Lecture notes in Physics', as it represents a well-written review of main results by the author, who is a recognized expert on heat kernel techniques in quantum gravity. [...] The results exposed in this book reflect the major contributions of the author to differential geometry and the theory of differential operators. They have many applications in quantum field theory with background fields, and indeed, the book can be used as a text for a short graduate course in the heat kernel techniques and their quantum gravity. (Mathematical Reviews 2003a)
"""This monograph rightly belongs to a series ‘Lecture notes in Physics’, as it represents a well-written review of main results by the author, who is a recognized expert on heat kernel techniques in quantum gravity. [...] The results exposed in this book reflect the major contributions of the author to differential geometry and the theory of differential operators. They have many applications in quantum field theory with background fields, and indeed, the book can be used as a text for a short graduate course in the heat kernel techniques and their quantum gravity."" (Mathematical Reviews 2003a)"
This monograph rightly belongs to a series `Lecture notes in Physics', as it represents a well-written review of main results by the author, who is a recognized expert on heat kernel techniques in quantum gravity. [...] The results exposed in this book reflect the major contributions of the author to differential geometry and the theory of differential operators. They have many applications in quantum field theory with background fields, and indeed, the book can be used as a text for a short graduate course in the heat kernel techniques and their quantum gravity. (Mathematical Reviews 2003a)
