Lectures on Quantum Gravity

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gomberoff, Andrés (Editor), Marolf, Donald (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Series: Series of the Centro De Estudios Científicos,
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum physics.; Thermodynamics.; Quantum computers.; Spintronics.; Quantum Physics.; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics.

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 fos...

Table of Contents:

• The Thermodynamics of Black Holes
• to Quantum Fields in Curved Spacetime and the Hawking Effect
• Large N Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity
• Lectures on D-branes, Tachyon Condensation, and String Field Theory
• Billiard Dynamics of Einstein-Matter Systems Near a Spacelike Singularity
• Tall Tales from de Sitter Space
• Causal Sets: Discrete Gravity
• Thermaldecay of the Cosmological Constant into Black Holes.