Introduction to quantum gravity - Part 17

          @misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:06030020,
            doi = {10.48660/06030020},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/06030020},
            author = {Smolin, Lee},
            keywords = {},
            language = {en},
            title = {Introduction to quantum gravity - Part 17},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2006},
            month = {mar},
            note = {PIRSA:06030020 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/index.php/pirsa/06030020}}
          }
          

Abstract

This is an introduction to background independent quantum theories of gravity, with a focus on loop quantum gravity and related approaches. Basic texts: -Quantum Gravity, by Carlo Rovelli, Cambridge University Press 2005 -Quantum gravityy with a positive cosmological constant, Lee Smolin, hep-th/0209079 -Invitation to loop quantum gravity, Lee Smolin, hep-th/0408048 -Gauge fields, knots and gravity, JC Baez, JP Muniain Prerequisites: -undergraduate quantum mechanics -basics of classical gauge field theories -basic general relativity -hamiltonian and lagrangian mechanics -basics of lie algebras