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EUCLIDEAN QUANTUM GRAVITY ON MANIFOLDS WITH BOUNDARY
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| By: |
Giampiero Esposito, A. Yu Kamenshchik, G. Pollifrone |
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Hardback |
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£99.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0792344723 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780792344728 |
| Publisher: |
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS |
| Pub. date: |
27 March, 1997 |
| Edition: |
1997 ed. |
| Series: |
Fundamental Theories of Physics v. 85 |
| Pages: |
322 |
| Description: |
Beginning with a review of the physical and mathematical motivations for studying physical theories in the presence of boundaries, this text emphasizes electrostatics, vacuum Maxwell theory and quantum cosmology. The Feynman propagator is studied in Minkowski space-time and in curved space-time. |
| Synopsis: |
Beginning with a review of the physical and mathematical motivations for studying physical theories in the presence of boundaries, this text places emphasis on electrostatics, vacuum Maxwell theory and quantum cosmology. The Feynman propagator is then studied in Minkowski space-time and in curved space-time. In the latter case, the corresponding Schwinger-De Witt asymptotic expansion is given. The following chapters introduce the theory of the effective action and the geometric improvement due to Vilkovisky, the manifestly covariant quantization of gauge fields, zeta-function regularization in mathematics and in quantum field theory, and the choice of local or non-local boundary conditions in one-loop quantum theory. In the second part, the authors present their investigations of Euclidean Maxwell theory, simple supergravity and Euclidean quantum gravity. This work should appeal to research workers involved in quantum field theory, relativity and gravitation, electromagnetic theory, cosmology and quantum mechanics. |
| Illustrations: |
bibliography, index |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Kluwer Academic Publishers |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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