Heat kernel and quantum gravity /

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....

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Main Author:	Avramidi, Ivan G., 1957-
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berlin ; New York : Springer, 2000.
Series:	Lecture notes in physics. Monographs ; m64.
Subjects:	Quantum gravity. Quantum field theory. Kernel functions. Spectral geometry. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book