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Claus Gerhardt

The Quantization of Gravity

Claus Gerhardt

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Springer International Publishing AG
06 November 2024
Cosmology & the universe; Gravity; Particle & high-energy physics; Mathematical physics
Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics
A unified quantum theory incorporating the four fundamental forces of nature is one of the major open problems in physics. The Standard Model combines electro-magnetism, the strong force and the weak force, but ignores gravity. The quantization of gravity is therefore a necessary first step to achieve a unified quantum theory. In this monograph a canonical quantization of gravity has been achieved by quantizing a geometric evolution equation resulting in a hyperbolic equation in a fiber bundle, where the base space represents a Cauchy hypersurface of the quantized spacetime and the fibers the Riemannian metrics in the base space. The hyperbolic operator, a second order partial differential operator, acts both in the fibers as well as in the base space. In this second edition new results are presented which allow the solutions of the hyperbolic equation to be expressed as products of spatial and temporal eigenfunctions of self-adjoint operators. These eigenfunctions form complete bases in appropriate Hilbert spaces. The eigenfunctions depending on the fiber elements are a subset of the Fourier kernel of the symmetric space SL(n,R)/SO(n), where n is the dimension of the base space; they represent the elementary gravitons corresponding to the degrees of freedom in choosing the entries of Riemannian metrics with determinants equal to one. These are all the degrees of freedom available because of the coordinate system invariance: For any smooth Riemannian metric there exists an atlas such that in each chart the determinant of the metric is equal to one. In the important case n=3 the Standard Model could also be incorporated such that one can speak of  a unified quantization of all four fundamental forces of nature.
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Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Country of Publication:   Switzerland
Edition:   Second Edition 2024
Volume:   194
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 155mm, 
ISBN:   9783031679216
ISBN 10:   3031679210
Series:   Fundamental Theories of Physics
Pages:   264
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Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
The quantization of a globally hyperbolic spacetime.- Interaction of gravity with Yang-Mills and Higgs fields.- The quantum development of an asymptotically Euclidean Cauchy hypersurface.- The quantization of a Schwarzschild-AdS black hole.- The quantization of a Kerr-AdS black hole.- A partition function for quantized globally hyperbolic spacetimes with a negative cosmological constant.- Appendix.

Claus Gerhardt is a professor of mathematics at the University of Heidelberg. His research areas are partial differential equations, differential geometry and general relativity. He is especially interested in geometric evolution equations in Riemannian or Lorentzian manifolds and in applying these geometric ideas and techniques to open problems in mathematics and physics.

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