Canonical Gravity: From Classical to Quantum Proceedings of the 117th WE Heraeus Seminar Held at Bad Honnef, Germany, 13–17 September 1993
The search for a quantum gravity theory, a theory expected to combine the principles of general relativity and quantum theory, has led to some of the most deepest and most difficult conceptual and mathematical questions of modern physics. The present book, addressing these issues in the framework of...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1994, 1994
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1994 |
| Series: | Lecture Notes in Physics
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Table of Contents:
- Prima facie questions in quantum gravity
- Hamilton's formalism for systems with constraints
- The classical theory of canonical general relativity
- Ashtekar variables in classical general relativity
- Quantization of systems with constraints
- Canonical quantum gravity and the question of time
- The semiclassical approximation to quantum gravity
- Loop representations
- Gauge theory and gravity in the loop formulation
- Reduced models for quantum gravity
- Adjointness relations as a criterion for choosing an inner product
- Overview and outlook