Heat Kernel and Quantum Gravity
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: April 26, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9783540671558
Subjects: Classical mechanics; Relativistic quantum mechanics & quantum field theory; Relativity physics; Waves & Wave Mechanics; Quantum Theory; Gravitation; Science; Spectral geometry; Science/Mathematics; Quantum gravity; Astronomy - General; General; Background Field Method; Medical-General; Schwinger-de Witt Expansion; Science / Physics; Science / Waves & Wave Mechanics; Science-Astronomy - General; Gravity; Kernel functions; Quantum Field Theory
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.
Notes: Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs