By Claus Kiefer
Oxford University Press
Hardback: £65 $117
The search for a quantum theory of the gravitational field is one of the great open problems in theoretical physics. This book covers the two main approaches to its construction – the direct quantization of Einstein’s general theory of relativity and string theory. There is a detailed presentation of the main approaches used in quantum general relativity: path-integral quantization, the background-field method and canonical quantum gravity in the metric, connection and loop formulations.
