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-
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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; New York : Springer, 2000.
Series:Lecture notes in physics. Monographs ; m64.
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by Avramidi, Ivan G., 1957-
Published 2000
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