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Introduction to Quantum Gravity
Introduction to Quantum Gravity
Lee Smolin
This course provides an introduction to background independent quantum theories of gravity, with a focus on loop quantum gravity and related approaches.
Follow this link to view or listen to all lectures.
Prerequisites:
undergraduate quantum mechanics
basics of classical gauge field theories
basic general relativity
hamiltonian and lagrangian mechanics
basics of lie algebras
Basic texts:
Quantum Gravity, by Carlo Rovelli, Cambridge University Press 2005
Quantum gravity with a positive cosmological constant
, Lee Smolin, hep-th/0209079
Invitation to loop quantum gravity
, Lee Smolin, hep-th/0408048 -Gauge fields, knots and gravity, JC Baez, JP Muniain
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