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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer,
2000.
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| Series: | Lecture notes in physics. Monographs ;
m64. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 149 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-139) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783540465232 (electronic bk.) 3540465235 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 0940-7677 ; |