Quantum Gravitation The Feynman Path Integral Approach /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hamber, Herbert W. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Quantum Physics.
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The book covers the theory of Quantum Gravitation from the point of view of Feynman path integrals. These provide a manifestly covariant approach in which fundamental quantum aspects of the theory such as radiative corrections and the renormalization group can be systematically and consistently addr...

Table of Contents:

• Continuum Formulation
• Feynman Path Integral Formulation
• Gravity in 2+? Dimensions
• Hamiltonian and Wheeler-DeWitt Equation
• Semiclassical Gravity
• Lattice Regularized Quantum Gravity
• Analytical Lattice Expansion Methods
• Numerical Studies
• Scale Dependent Gravitational Couplings. .