Quantum gravity as sum over spacetimes
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2014-11-20 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
A major unsolved problem in theoretical physics is to reconcile the classical theory of general relativity with quantum mechanics. These lectures will deal with an attempt to describe quantum gravity as a path integral over geometries known as "Causal Dynamical Triangulations" (CDT).
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@article{arxiv.0906.3947,
title = {Quantum gravity as sum over spacetimes},
author = {Jan Ambjorn and Jerzy Jurkiewicz and Renate Loll},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.3947},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
references added, typos corrected. 67 pages, lectures given at the summer school "New Paths Towards Quantum Gravity", May 12-16 2008. To appear as part of a Springer Lecture Notes in Physics publication: "Quantum Gravity - New Paths Towards Unification"