Quantum Gravity

This is the fifth in the important series of Moscow Seminars on Quantum Gravity. The main topics are Quantum Gravity, Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime, Quantum Black Hole Physics, Quantum Cosmology, Early Universe, Kaluza-Klein Theory, Superstrings and Superstring Cosmology and all that. Contents: "Quantum Gravity: General: "On Some Problems of Quantum and Classical Gravitation "(M A Markov)"Lattice Quantization of the 0 (1,2)/0 (2) x Z2 Sigma Model in 4 Dimensions "(B...
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This is the fifth in the important series of Moscow Seminars on Quantum Gravity. The main topics are Quantum Gravity, Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime, Quantum Black Hole Physics, Quantum Cosmology, Early Universe, Kaluza-Klein Theory, Superstrings and Superstring Cosmology and all that.
Contents: "Quantum Gravity: General: "On Some Problems of Quantum and Classical Gravitation "(M A Markov)"Lattice Quantization of the 0 (1,2)/0 (2) x Z2 Sigma Model in 4 Dimensions "(B S Dewitt)"Third Quantization of Gravity and the Cosmological Constant Problem "(V A Rubakov)"No Time and Quantum Gravity "(W G Unruh)"Minisuperspace Wavefunctions for Cosmology and Wormholes "(D N Page)"Wave Funstions Constructed from an Invariant Sum-Over-Histories Satisfy Constraints: Three Derivations of the Wheeler-DeWitt Equation "(J J Halliwell & J B Hartle)"Supersymmetric Quantum Wormhole States "(P D D'Eath)"On the Conformal Factor Problem in Quantum Gravity "(Yu V Novozhilov & D V Vassilevich)"Wα-Geometry and Wα-Gravity "(K S Stelle)"Uncertainty and Equivalence Principles in Quantum General Relativity "(H-H V Borzeszkowski)"Three-Dimensional Four-Fermion (Vector) x (Vector) Model is Renormlizable and Ultraviolet Finite "(N V Krasnikov & A B Kyatkin)"Quantum Theory of Particles with Planckean Masses "(A A Grib & V Yu Dorofeev)""Quantum Effects in Black Holes and in Accelerated Frames: "Quantum String Gravity Near the Planck Scale "(G Veneziano)"More on the Black Hole S-Matrix "(G 't Hooft)"Vacuum Polarization in a Locally Static Multiply-Connected Spacetime and a Time Machine Problem "(V P Frolov)"Inequalities which Constrain Negative Energy in Quantum Field Theory "(L H Ford)"On a Quantum Mechanical Model of a Black Hole "(V A Berezin)"Light Like Surface Layers in General Relativity "(C BarrabŻs & W Israel)"Hamiltoniam Diagonalization in Curved Space "(M Castagnino et al)""Very Early Universe: "One-Loop Quantum Cosmology: the General Semiclassical Solution of the Wheeler-De Witt Equations and its Applications "(A O Barvinsky & A Yu Kamenshchik)"Experimental Constraints on Dark Matter "(J Ellis)"The Self-Measurement of the Universe and the Concept of Time in Quantum Cosmology "(M B Mensky)"Mechanical Properties and Cosmological Implications of Current Carrying Cosmic Strings "(B Carter)"Quantum String Theory in Curved Space-Time "(N Sanchez)"Quantum Processes in the Gravitational Field of a Cosmic string "(V D Skarzhinsky & D D Harari)"Thermodynamics of the Neutral String Gas in Electromagnetic Background "(E S Fradkin et al)"The Problem of the Wave Function of the Universe in the Radiation Dominated Case "(E Gunzig)"Kaluza-Klein Models: From Quantum State to Observations "(U Bleyer)"Space-Time Dimension of the Universe "(H Terazawa)"On the Origin of Classical Density Perturbations in the Inflationary Universe "(R Brandenberger et al )"Squeezed Quantum States in Theory of Cosmological Perturbations "(L P Grishchuk & Yu V Sidorov)"and other papers
Readership: Astrophysicists and cosmologists.