Lectures on non-perturbative canonical gravity. (English) Zbl 0948.83500
Advanced Series in Astrophysics and Cosmology. 6. Singapore: World Scientific. xix, 334 p. (1991).
Publisher’s description: It is now generally recognized that perturbative field theoretical methods that have been highly successful in the quantum description of non-gravitational interactions cannot be used as a means of constructing a quantum theory of gravity. The primary aim of the book is to present an up-to-date account of a non-perturbative, canonical quantization program for gravity. Many of the technical results obtained in the process are of interest also to differential geometry, classical general relativity and QCD. The program as a whole was highlighted in virtually every major conference in gravitational physics over the past three years.
MSC:
83-02 | Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory |
83C45 | Quantization of the gravitational field |
81T20 | Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds |
53Z05 | Applications of differential geometry to physics |