Quantum Structure of Space and TimeM. J. Duff, C. J. Isham 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. |
Contents
Some Remarks on Gravity and Quantum Mechanics | 3 |
An Experimental Test of Quantum Gravity | 11 |
Quantum Mechanical Origin of the Sandwich Theorem | 23 |
eStates Induced by the Diffeomorphism Group in | 37 |
An Introduction | 53 |
Quantizing Fourth Order Gravity Theories | 71 |
Greens Functions States and Renormalisation | 87 |
Introduction to Quantum Regge Calculus | 105 |
OffShell N2 and N4 Supergravity in Five Dimensions | 239 |
Supergravity in High Dimensions | 255 |
Building Linearised Extended Supergravities | 283 |
Super gravity in the Complex Angular Momentum Plane | 299 |
The Multiplet Structure of Solitons in the 02 | 317 |
Extended Supercurrents and the Ultraviolet | 337 |
Duality Rotations | 363 |
Energy Stability and Cosmological Constant | 377 |
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Near a Black Hole | 131 |
YangMills Vacua in a General ThreeSpace | 155 |
Fermion Fractionization in Physics | 169 |
The New Minimal Formulation of N1 Supergravity | 187 |
A New Deteriorated EnergyMomentum Tensor | 223 |
Phase Transitions in the Early Universe | 391 |
Complete Cosmological Theories | 409 |
P GRISHCHUK Ya B ZELDOVICH | 423 |
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