Effective spacetime [electronic resource] : understanding emergence in effective field theory and quantum gravity / Karen Crowther.
2016
QC173.7
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Title
Effective spacetime [electronic resource] : understanding emergence in effective field theory and quantum gravity / Karen Crowther.
Author
Crowther, Karen, author.
ISBN
9783319395081 (electronic book)
3319395084 (electronic book)
9783319395067
3319395084 (electronic book)
9783319395067
Published
Switzerland : Springer, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 205 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number
QC173.7
Dewey Decimal Classification
530.14
Summary
This book discusses the notion that quantum gravity may represent the "breakdown" of spacetime at extremely high energy scales. If spacetime does not exist at the fundamental level, then it has to be considered "emergent", in other words an effective structure, valid at low energy scales. The author develops a conception of emergence appropriate to effective theories in physics, and shows how it applies (or could apply) in various approaches to quantum gravity, including condensed matter approaches, discrete approaches, and loop quantum gravity.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Spacetime and quantum gravity
Emergence and reduction
Effective field theory
Universality, higher organising principles and emergence
Spacetime as described by EFT
Discrete approaches to quantum gravity
Loop quantum gravity
Conclusion: Now here from nowhere.
Emergence and reduction
Effective field theory
Universality, higher organising principles and emergence
Spacetime as described by EFT
Discrete approaches to quantum gravity
Loop quantum gravity
Conclusion: Now here from nowhere.