Title:
Quantum structure of space and time : proceedings of the Nuffield workshop, Imperial College, London, 3-21 August, 1981
Publication Information:
New York, : Cambridge Univ Pr., 1982
Physical Description:
xiii, 432 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781107404588
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Summary
Summary
This book was first published in 1982. It consists of selected contributions presented at the Nuffield Quantum Gravity Workshop held at Imperial College, London, in August 1981. The book is divided into three parts which correspond with the three separate themes pursued at the workshop. Part I is concerned with the geometrical and topological aspects of quantum gravity. Part II focuses on supergravity and its application to the Grand Unified Theories of elementary particles. Part III concentrates on the early universe and cosmology. The book, therefore, covers not only supergravity, but the whole spectrum of quantum gravity research.
Table of Contents
| ForewordAbdus Salam |
| Preface |
| List of participants |
| Part I Quantum Gravity, Fields and Topology |
| 1 Some remarks on gravity and quantum mechanicsRoger Penrose |
| 2 An experimental test of quantum gravityDon N. Page and C. D. Geilker |
| 3 Quantum mechanical origin of the sandwich theorem in classical gravitation theoryClaudio Teitelboim |
| 4 ¿-States induced by the diffeomorphism group in canonically quantized gravityC. J. Isham |
| 5 Strong coupling quantum gravity: an introductionMartin Pilati |
| 6 Quantizing fourth order gravity theoriesS. M. Christensen |
| 7 Green's functions, states and renormalisationM. R. Brown and A. C. Ottewill |
| 8 Introduction to quantum regge calculusMartin Rocek and Ruth Williams |
| 9 Spontaneous symmetry breaking in curved space-timeD. J. Toms |
| 10 Spontaneous symmetry breaking near a black holeM. S. Fawcett and B. F. Whiting |
| 11 Yang-Mills vacua in a general three-spaceG. Kunstatter |
| 12 Fermion fractionization in physicsR. Jackiw |
| Part II Supergravity |
| 13 The new minimal formulation of N=1 supergravity and its tensor calculusM. F. Sohnius and P. C. West |
| 14 A new deteriorated energy-momentum tensorM. J. Duff and P. K. Townsend |
| 15 Off-shell N=2 and N=4 supergravity in five dimensionsP. Howe |
| 16 Supergravity in high dimensionsP. van Niewenhuizen |
| 17 Building linearised extended supergravitiesJ. G. Taylor |
| 18 (Super)gravity in the complex angular momentum planeM. T. Grisaru |
| 19 The multiplet structure of solitons in the O(2) supergravity theoryG. W. Gibbons |
| 20 Ultra-violet properties of supersymmetric gauge theoryS. Ferrara |
| 21 Extended supercurrents and the ultra-violet finiteness of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theoriesK. S. Stelle |
| 22 Duality rotationsB. Zumino |
| Part III Cosmology and the Early Universe |
| 23 Energy, stability and cosmological constantS. Deser |
| 24 Phase transitions in the early universeT. W. B. Kibble |
| 25 Complete cosmological theoriesL. P. Grishchuk and Ya. B. Zeldovich |
| 26 The cosmological constant and the weak anthropic principleS. W. Hawking |
