
Here for the first time the reader will find a presentation of modern one-loop quantum cosmology with boundary conditions. The details of calculations are given as well as researchers and graduate students. The second edition adds new material to both the text and the bibliography...


This book is aimed at theoretical and mathematical physicists and mathematicians interested in modern gravitational physics. I have thus tried to use language familiar to readers working on classical and quantum gravity, paying attention both to difficult calculations and to...