A first course in loop quantum gravity
By: Rodolfo Gambini and Jorge Pullin
Contributors: Pullin, Jorge
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780199590759
Subjects: Quantum gravity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-179) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Why quantize gravity?; title: 2. Special relativity and electromagnetism; title: 3. Some elements of general relativity; title: 4. Hamiltonian mechanics including constraints and fields; title: 5. Yang-Mills theories; title: 6. Quantum mechanics and elements of quantum field theory; title: 7. General relativity in terms of Ashtekar's new variables; title: 8. Loop representation for general relativity; title: 9. An application: loop quantum cosmology; title: 10. Further developments; title: 11. Open issues and controversies.