James Lindesay

Foundations of Quantum Gravity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores how quantum coherence can be consistently incorporated into Einstein's theory of gravitation, for researchers in the foundations of physics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 180mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 975g
• ISBN-13: 9781107008403
• ISBN-10: 1107008409
• Artikelnr.: 37296505

Autorenporträt

James Lindesay is a Professor of Physics at Howard University, and was the founding Director of the Computational Physics Lab. He has been a visiting professor at Hampton University and Stanford University and a visiting faculty scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Galilean and Special Relativity: 1. Classical special relativity
2. Quantum mechanics, classical, and special relativity
3. Microscopic formulations of particle interactions
4. Group theory in quantum mechanics
Part II. General Relativity: 5. Fundamentals of general relativity
6. Quantum mechanics in curved space-time backgrounds
7. The physics of horizons and trapping regions
8. Cosmology
9. Gravitation of interacting systems
Appendixes
References
Index.