A first course in loop quantum gravity / Rodolfo Gambini and Jorge Pullin

By:

Gambini, Rodolfo

Contributor(s):

Pullin, Jorge

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011Description: viii, 183 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:

9780199590759
0199590753

Subject(s):

Quantum gravity

Contents:

. Why quantize gravity? -- 2. Special relativity and electromagnetism -- 3. Some elements of general relativity -- 4. Hamiltonian mechanics including constraints and fields -- 5. Yang-Mills theories -- 6. Quantum mechanics and elements of quantum field theory -- 7. General relativity in terms of Ashtekar’s new variables -- 8. Loop representation for general relativity -- 9. An application: loop quantum cosmology -- 10. Further developments -- 11. Open issues and controversies

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Open Shelf	UMPLIB PEKAN	QC178 .G36 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		0000074063

Includes bibliographical references (p. [174]-179) and index