Heat kernel and quantum gravity.

Avramidi, Ivan G.:

ISBN 10: 3540671552 / ISBN 13: 9783540671558

Published by Berlin, Springer, 2000

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Heat kernel and quantum gravity.
• Publisher: Berlin, Springer
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540671552
• ISBN 13: 9783540671558
• Binding: Hardcover
• Weight: 900 grams
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

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From the Back Cover

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.