Lectures on Quantum Gravity

Andres Gomberoff, Donald Marolf - Collection Series of the Centro de Estudios Cientificos (CECS)

350 pages, parution le 30/06/2005

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The 2002 Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute School on Quantum Gravity was held at the Centro de Estudios Cientificos (CECS),Valdivia, Chile, January 4-14, 2002. The school featured lectures by ten speakers, and was attended by nearly 70 students from over 14 countries. A primary goal was to foster interaction and communication between participants from different cultures, both in the layman's sense of the term and in terms of approaches to quantum gravity. We hope that the links formed by students and the school will persist throughout their professional lives, continuing to promote interaction and the essential exchange of ideas that drives research forward.

This volume contains improved and updated versions of the lectures given at the School. It has been prepared both as a reminder for the participants, and so that these pedagogical introductions can be made available to others who were unable to attend. We expect them to serve students of all ages well.

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Preface
The Thermodynamics of Black Holes
Introduction to Quantum Fields in Curved Spacetime and the Hawking Effect
Large N field theories and gravity
Lectures on D-branes, tachyon condensation, and string field theory
Billiard dynamics
Tall tales from de Sitter space
Causal Sets: Discrete Gravity
Thermal Decay of the Cosmological Constant into Black Holes

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Éditeur(s)	Springer
Auteur(s)	Andres Gomberoff, Donald Marolf
Collection	Series of the Centro de Estudios Cientificos (CECS)
Parution	30/06/2005
Nb. de pages	350
Format	17 x 25,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	738g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780387239958
ISBN13	978-0-387-23995-8