The Quantization of Gravity

• Main Author: Gerhardt, Claus (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics, 194
• Subjects: Gravitation.; Cosmology.; Mathematical physics.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Mathematical Physics.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.

A unified quantum theory incorporating the four fundamental forces of nature is one of the major open problems in physics. The Standard Model combines electro-magnetism, the strong force and the weak force, but ignores gravity. The quantization of gravity is therefore a necessary first step to achie...

Table of Contents:

• The quantization of a globally hyperbolic spacetime
• Interaction of gravity with Yang-Mills and Higgs fields
• The quantum development of an asymptotically Euclidean Cauchy hypersurface
• The quantization of a Schwarzschild-AdS black hole
• The quantization of a Kerr-AdS black hole
• A partition function for quantized globally hyperbolic spacetimes with a negative cosmological constant
• Appendix.