Heat Kernel and Quantum Gravity
ISBN
9783540671558
Heat Kernel and Quantum Gravity is a spectral geometry, quantum gravity book by Ivan G. Avramidi.
About this book
This book tackles quantum gravity via the so-called background field method and its effective action functional. The author presents an explicitly covariant and effective technique to calculate the de Witt coefficients and to analyze the Schwinger-de Wit asymptotic expansion of the effective action. He also investigates the ultraviolet behaviour of higher-derivative quantum gravity. The book addresses theoretical physicists, graduate students as well as researchers, but should also be of interest to physicists working in mathematical or elementary particle physics.
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Heat Kernel and Quantum Gravity is a Spectral geometry, Quantum gravity, Kernel functions, Quantum field theory, Physics book.
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This book tackles quantum gravity via the so-called background field method and its effective action functional. The author presents an explicitly covariant and effective technique to calculate the de Witt coefficients and to analyze the Schwinger-de Wit asymptotic expansion of the effective action....
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Heat Kernel and Quantum Gravity was written by Ivan G. Avramidi.