euclidean quantum gravity von hawking stephen gibbons g w (6 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. EUCLIDEAN QUANTUM GRAVITY | Gibbons G W | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 1993 | World Scientific | EAN 9789810205164 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Euclidean approach to Quantum Gravity was initiated almost 15 years ago in an attempt to understand the difficulties raised by the spacetime singularities of classical general relativity which arise in the gravitational collapse of stars to form black holes and the entire universe in the Big Bang. An important motivation was to develop an approach capable of dealing with the nonlinear, non-perturbative aspects of quantum gravity due to topologically non-trivial spacetimes. There are important links with a Riemannian geometry. Since its inception the theory has been applied to a number of important physical problems including the thermodynamic properties of black holes, quantum cosmology and the problem of the cosmological constant. It is currently at the centre of a great deal of interest.This is a collection of survey lectures and reprints of some important lectures on the Euclidean approach to quantum gravity in which one expresses the Feynman path integral as a sum over Riemannian metrics. As well as papers on the basic formalism there are sections on Black Holes, Quantum Cosmology, Wormholes and Gravitational Instantons.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First Edition. First edition, hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Pages clean and free of marks, binding solid. Light stain to fore-edge. Dust jacket has short tear to flap, now protected by mylar sleeve.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 180x255mm; pp. xiii, 586. STEPHEN HAWKING'S OWN COPY OF THIS COLLECTION, FEATURING MANY OF HIS MOST FAMOUS PAPERS ON QUANTUM GRAVITATION. As a collection, this volume counts as one of the milestones of 20th century astrophysics. The book collects some 37 papers by Hawking and others, inlucing the classic 'Particle Creation by Black Holes', considered to be "perhaps the most important paper on quantum gravity" (Maciej Przanowski, reviewing this volume). In the latter paper, first published in 1975 in Communications in Mathematical Physics, Hawking gave a detailed account of what has come to be known as 'Hawking Radiation', the counter-intuitive notion that black holes 'evaporate' gradually through thermal black-body radiation escaping the event horizon. Roger Penrose's words sum up the importance of the work presented here: "We remember Newton for answers. We remember Hawking for questions. And Hawking's questions themselves keep on giving, generating breakthroughs decades later. When ultimately we master the quantum gravity laws, and fully comprehend the birth of our universe, it will be by standing on the shoulders of Hawking." Also included are Hawking's papers 'The Cosmological Constant is Probably Zero', and 'Wormholes in Spacetime', as well as a number of important papers by other authors, notable Shing-Tung Yau and Richard M. Schoen's 'Proof of the Positive-Action Conjecture in Quantum Gravity'. A highly significant volume with unsurpassable provenance: this is Hawking's own file copy (the only copy we have been able to identify as such). Very good condition: internally fine; dust jacket very slightly worn along edges (but see photograph). Provenance given by a bookplate indicating that the book was removed from Hawking's home in Cambridge, as typical with his file copies.