Lectures on Non-Perturbative Canonical Gravity

By Abhay Ashtekar

Book Overview

Notes prepared in Collaboration with Ranjeet S Tate
It is now generally recognized that perturbative field theoretical methods that have been highly successful in the quantum description of non-gravitational interactions cannot be used as a means of constructing a quantum theory of gravity. The primary aim of the book is to present an up- to-date account of a non-perturbative, canonical quantization program for gravity. Many of the technical results obtained in the process are of interest also to differential geometry, classical general relativity and QCD. The program as a whole was highlighted in virtually every major conference in gravitational physics over the past three years.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9810205740
• ISBN13: 9789810205744
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"