| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 183 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-179) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Why quantize gravity? -- 2. Special relativity and electromagnetism -- 3. Some elements of general relativity -- 4. Hamiltonian mechanics including constraints and fields -- 5. Yang-Mills theories -- 6. Quantum mechanics and elements of quantum field theory -- 7. General relativity in terms of Ashtekar's new variables -- 8. Loop representation for general relativity -- 9. An application: loop quantum cosmology -- 10. Further developments -- 11. Open issues and controversies. |
| Summary |
Loop quantum gravity is one of the modern contenders for a unified description of quantum mechanics and gravity. Up to now no book has covered the material at the level of a college student or of other readers with some knowledge of college level physics. This book fills that gap. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Quantum gravity.
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Quantum gravity. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Pullin, Jorge.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gambini, Rodolfo. First course in loop quantum gravity. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011 9780199590759 (DLC) 2011942564 (OCoLC)730413861 |
| ISBN |
9780191003233 (electronic book) |
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0191003239 (electronic book) |
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1299559336 (e-book) |
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9781299559332 (e-book) |
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9780199590759 |
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0199590753 |
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