Asymptotically Safe Gravity From Spacetime Foliation to Cosmology /

• Main Author: Platania, Alessia Benedetta (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: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Gravitation.; Cosmology.; Manifolds (Mathematics).; Complex manifolds.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. Diff.Topology).

This book seeks to construct a consistent fundamental quantum theory of gravity, which is often considered one of the most challenging open problems in present-day physics. It approaches this challenge using modern functional renormalization group techniques, and attempts to realize the idea of &quo...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Asymptotically Safe Quantum Gravity
• The Wilsonian Idea of Renormalization
• Functional Renormalization and Asymptotically Safe Gravity
• Part II: Asymptotically Safe Gravity on Foliated Spacetimes
• Quantum Gravity on Foliated Spacetimes
• Part III: Astrophysical and Cosmological Implications of Asymptotic Safety
• Inflationary Cosmology from Quantum Gravity-matter Systems
• Quantum Black Holes and Spacetime Singularities
• Conclusions.