Quantum gravity as sum over spacetimes

DOI10.1007/978-3-642-11897-5_2MaRDI QIDQ3172154zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jan Ambjørn, J. Jurkiewicz, Renate Loll

Publication date 5 October 2011

Published in New Paths Towards Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0906.3947

zbMATH Keywords

causal dynamical triangulationDe Sitter spacetimeEuclidean quantum gravity in 2 dimensionsFeynman Integralsfluctuationsgeometriesgraph theorylattice theoriesquantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Gravitational waves (83C35) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Black holes (83C57) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

Abstract: A major unsolved problem in theoretical physics is to reconcile the classical theory of general relativity with quantum mechanics. These lectures will deal with an attempt to describe quantum gravity as a path integral over geometries known as "Causal Dynamical Triangulations" (CDT).

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