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EPFL Lectures on General Relativity as a Quantum Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-02-02 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

These notes are an introduction to General Relativity as a Quantum Effective Field Theory, following the material given in a short course on the subject at EPFL. The intent is to develop General Relativity starting from a quantum field theoretic viewpoint, and to introduce some of the techniques needed to understand the subject.

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@article{arxiv.1702.00319,
  title  = {EPFL Lectures on General Relativity as a Quantum Field Theory},
  author = {John F. Donoghue and Mikhail M. Ivanov and Andrey Shkerin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.00319},
  year   = {2017}
}

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70 pages

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