EPFL Lectures on General Relativity as a Quantum Field Theory

2017/02/01 by Donoghue, John F., Ivanov, Mikhail M., Shkerin, Andrey · 6 citations
#FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1702.00319

Abstract

These notes are an introduction to General Relativity as a Quantum Effective Field Theory, following the material given in a short course on the subject at EPFL. The intent is to develop General Relativity starting from a quantum field theoretic viewpoint, and to introduce some of the techniques needed to understand the subject.

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