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This volume contains the Proceedings of 'Quantum Gravity': a series of qualified lectures of most outstanding scientists given during the XIV Course of the International School of Cosmology and Gravitation. As usual of that School, the Course was conceived for researchers at different levels of scientific maturity ranging from post-doctorate research students to well established research workers: then in every lecture you can find an introduction where a review and analysis of the main mathematical, physical and epistemological difficulties encountered at the formulations of relativistic quantum theories are expounded, ranging from relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory in Minkowski and in curved space-time to the various canonical and covariant approaches to quantum gravity.

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Author:   Venzo De Sabbata (Univ Of Bologna, Italy) ,  Antonino Zichichi (European Physical Society, Geneva, Switzerland) ,  P G Bergmann (New York Univ, Usa) ,  H J Treder (Wip Gravitational Project, Potsdam, Germany)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Volume:   0
ISBN:  

9789810227869

ISBN 10:   9810227868
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   01 September 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Gravity without the metric and torsion, P. Bandyopadyay; relativistic theories of heat, P.G. Bergmann; classical gravity and quantum matter fields in unified field theory, H.-H. v Borzeszkowski and H.-J. Treder; mixed field theories and Weyl-Cartan geometry, H.-H. v Borzeszkowski and H.-J. Treder; physical theories in space-time algebra, B.K. Datta; twistor, torsion and tensor-spinors space-time, V. de Sabbata; quantized matter in a de Sitter gauge theory with classical metric and axial torsion, W. Drechsler; quantum gravity and black hole entropy, V. Frolov; null hypersurface canonical formalism, J. Goldberg; on the gauge aspects of gravity, F. Gronwald and F.W. Hehl; superluminal and gravitational behaviour on non-local photons, A. Komar; describing GR by characteristic surfaces, S. Frittelli et al; twistor theory, the Einstein equations and quantum mechanics, R. Penrose; quantum geometry and gravity, E. Progovecki; strings and multi-strings in black hole and cosmological spacetimes, A.L. Larsen and N. Sanchez; what is space-time made of?, E.L. Schucking et al; a Poincare gaug theory of gravitation in Minkowski spacetime, C. Weisendargen; general relativity on spinor-tensor manifold, X. Yu; a discrete approach to the quantization of spacetime, Z.-J. Zhang.

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