Heat Kernel and Quantum Gravity

Book Description
This book tackles quantum gravity via the so-called background field method and its effective action functional. The author presents an explicitly covariant and effective technique to calculate the de Witt coefficients and to analyze the Schwinger-de Wit asymptotic expansion of the effective action. He also investigates the ultraviolet behaviour of higher-derivative quantum gravity.The book addresses theoretical physicists, graduate students as well as researchers, but should also be of interest to physicists working in mathematical or elementary particle physics.

Book Info
Discusses quantum gravity via the background field method and its effective action functional. Presents an explicitly covariant and effective technique to calculate the de Witt coefficients and to analyze the Schwinger-de Witt asymptotic expansion of the effective action.


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