量子引力(Quantum Gravity)
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品牌: 罗威利
基本信息·出版社：世界图书出版公司
·页码：455 页
·出版日期：2008年
·ISBN：9787506291835
·条形码：9787506291835
·包装版本：1版（影印版）
·装帧：平装
·开本：16
·正文语种：英语
·外文书名：Quantum Gravity
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内容简介This book is about only one approach to the subject - loop quantum gravity. It is a subject of considerable technical difficulty, and the literature devoted to it is a formidable one. This feature alone has hindered the cross-fertilization which is, as delineated above, so essential for progress. However, within these pages one will find a much more accessible description of the subject, put forward by one of its leading architects and deepest thinkers. The existence of such a fine book will allow this important subject, quite likely to contribute significantly to the unknown ultimate theory, to be assimilated by a much larger community of the-orists. If this does indeed come to pass, its publication will become one of the most important developments in this very active subfield since its onset.
编辑推荐Quantum gravity poses the problem of merging quantum mechanics and general relativity, the two great conceptual revolutions in the physics of the twentieth century. The loop and spinfoam approach, presented in this book, is one of the leading research programs in the field. The first part of the book discusses the reformulation of the basis of classical and quantum Hamiltonian physics required by general relativity. The second part covers the basic technical research directions. Appendices include a detailed history of the subject of quantum gravity, hard-to-find mathematical material, and a discussion of some philosophical issues raised by the subject. This fascinating text is ideal for graduate students entering the field, as well as researchers already working in quantum gravity. It will also appeal to philosophers and other scholars interested in the nature of space and time.
目录
Foreword, by James Bjorken .
Preface
Acknowledgements
Terminology and notation
Part I Relativistic foundations
1 General ideas and heuristic picture
1.1 The problem of quantum gravity
1.2 Loop quantum gravity
1.3 Conceptual issues
2 General Relativity
2.1 Formalism
2.2 The conceptual path to the theory
2.3 Interpretation
2.4 Complements
3 Mechanics
4 Hamiltonian general relativity
5 Quantum mechanics
Part II Loop quantum gravity
6 Quantum space
7 Dynamics and matter
8 Applications
9 Quantum spacetime: spinfoams
10 Conclusion
Part IIIAppendices
Appendxi A Groups and recoupling theory
Reference
Index
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