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" Lectures on quantum gravity / "
edited by Andrés Gomberoff, Donald Marolf
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627616
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Lectures on quantum gravity /\ edited by Andrés Gomberoff, Donald Marolf
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New York :: Springer,, ©2005
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Series of the Centro de Estudios Científicos,
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1 online resource (xv, 349 pages) :: illustrations
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0387239952 (acid-free paper)
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: 0387249923 (e-book)
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: 9780387239958 (acid-free paper)
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: 9780387249926 (e-book)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contributing Authors -- Preface -- The Thermodynamics of Black Holes, Robert M. Wald -- Introduction to Quantum Fields in Curved Spacetime and the Hawking Effect, Ted Jacobson -- Large N field theories and gravity, Juan Maldacena -- Lectures on D-branes, tachyon condensation, and string field theory, Washington Taylor -- Billiard dynamics, Thibault Damour, Marc Henneaux, Hermann Nicolai -- Tall tales from de Sitter space, Robert C. Myers -- Causal Sets: Discrete Gravity, Rafael D. Sorkin -- Thermal Decay of the Cosmological Constant into Black Holes, Andrés Gomberoff, Marc Henneaux, Claudio Teitelboim, Frank Wilczek
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The 2002 Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute School on Quantum Gravity was held at the Centro de Estudios Cientificos (CECS), Valdivia, Chile, January 4-14, 2002. The school featured lectures by ten speakers, and was attended by nearly 70 students from over 14 countries. This volume contains lectures given at the School
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Quantum gravity
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Gomberoff, Andrés
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Marolf, Donald
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