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Heat Kernel and Quantum Gravity

Heat Kernel and Quantum Gravity

Avramidi, Ivan G.

Hardcover

Series: Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs, Book 64

Medical ReferenceAstronomy & SpacePhysics

ISBN10: 3540671552
ISBN13: 9783540671558
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Mar 27 2000
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This book is aimed at theoretical as well as primarily physicists graduate students in field working quantum theory, quantum gravity, theories, gauge to sdme and and, it is not extent, general relativity cosmology. Although aimed at a I that it also be of level, hope in mathematically rigorous may terest to mathematical and mathematicians in physicists working spectral of differential mani geometry, spectral asymptotics on operators, analysis differential and mathematical methods in folds, geometry quantum theory. Thisbook will be considered too abstract some but certainly by physicists, not detailed and most mathematicians. This in completeenoughby means, thatthe material is at the level of particular, presented physical So, rigor. there theorems and areno and technicalcalculationsare lemmas, proofs long omitted. I tried detailed to a ofthe basic Instead, give presentation ideas, methodsandresults. Itried makethe to as andcom Also, exposition explicit as the lessabstractandhaveillustratedthe plete possible, methods language and results withsome As is well onecannot examples. known, cover every in an text. The in this thing, especially introductory approach presented book the lines is a further of the so called along goes (and development) fieldmethod ofDe Witt. As a Ihavenot dealt at background consequence, allwithmanifoldswith boundary, non Laplacetype (ornonminimal) opera Riemann Cartan manifolds well with as as recent tors, developments many and advanced such Ashtekar's more as topics, approach, supergravity, strings, matrix etc. The membranes, interested reader is referred models, M theory tothe literature.

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