Heat Kernel and Quantum Gravity [electronic resource] / by Ivan G. Avramidi.

By:

Avramidi, Ivan G [author.]

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SpringerLink (Online service)

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs ; 64Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2000Description: X, 152 p. online resourceContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9783540465232

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Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No title; Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:

530.14 23

LOC classification:

QC174.45-174.52

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Contents:

Background Field Method in Quantum Field Theory -- Technique for Calculation of De Witt Coefficients -- Partial Summation of Schwinger-De Witt Expansion -- Higher-Derivative Quantum Gravity -- Conclusion.

In: Springer eBooksSummary: 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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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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