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• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 19 May 2024

A comprehensible introduction to the most fascinating research in theoretical physics: advanced quantum gravity. Ideal for researchers and graduate students.

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
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• Release Date : 22 September 2011

This book provides an accessible introduction to loop quantum gravity and some of its applications, at a level suitable for undergraduate students and others with only a minimal knowledge of

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 29 November 2007

Quantum gravity is perhaps the most important open problem in fundamental physics. It is the problem of merging quantum mechanics and general relativity, the two great conceptual revolutions in the

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 05 March 2009

Containing contributions from leading researchers in this field, this book provides a complete overview of this field from the frontiers of theoretical physics research for graduate students and researchers. It

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 04 December 2003

The first comprehensive survey of (2+1)-dimensional quantum gravity - for graduate students and researchers.

• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
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• Release Date : 16 September 2003

The relation between quantum theory and the theory of gravitation remains one of the most outstanding unresolved issues of modern physics. According to general expectation, general relativity as well as

• Publisher : World Scientific
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• Release Date : 17 February 2017

This book covers recent developments in the covariant formulation of quantum gravity. Developed in the 1960s by Feynman and DeWitt, by the 1980s this approach seemed to lead nowhere due

• Publisher : Basic Books
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• Release Date : 18 March 2008

"It would be hard to imagine a better guide to this difficult subject." -- Scientific American In Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, Lee Smolin provides an accessible overview of the

• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
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• Release Date : 20 October 2008

"Quantum Gravitation" approaches the subject from the point of view of Feynman path integrals, which provide a manifestly covariant approach in which fundamental quantum aspects of the theory such as

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 09 September 2021

A straightforward introduction to General Relativity, explaining the physical, philosophical and mathematical ideas it is built on.