Quantum field theory and gravity [electronic resource] : conceptual and mathematical advances in the search for a unified framework / Felix Finster [and others], editors.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Finster, Felix, 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel : Birkhäuser, ©2012.
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Table of Contents:
  • Quantum Gravity: Whence, Whither?
  • Local Covariance and Background Independence
  • The "Big Wave" Theory for Dark Energy
  • Discrete and Continuum Third Quantization of Gravity
  • Unsharp Values, Domains and Topoi
  • Causal Boundary of Spacetimes:Revision and Applications to AdS/CFT Correspondence
  • Some Mathematical Aspects of the Hawking Effect for Rotating Black Holes
  • Observables in the General Boundary Formulation
  • Causal Fermion Systems: A Quantum Space-Time Emerging From an Action Principle
  • CCR- versus CAR-Quantization on Curved Spacetimes
  • On the Notion of 'the Same Physics in All Spacetimes'
  • Local Covariance, Renormalization Ambiguity, and Local Thermal Equilibrium in Cosmology
  • Shape Dynamics. An Introduction
  • On the Motion of Point Defects in Relativistic Fields
  • How Unique Are Higher-dimensional Black Holes?
  • Equivalence Principle, Quantum Mechanics, and Atom-Interferometric Tests.