Name: Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity (en Inglés)
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Author: James Read
ISBN: 9780192889119

portada Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity (en Inglés)

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Oxford University Press

Autor

James Read

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Inglés

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160

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Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780192889119

Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity (en Inglés)

James Read (Autor) · Oxford University Press · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Background Independence in Classical and Quantum Gravity (en Inglés)"

It is often claimed that Einstein's magnum opus---his 1915 theory of General Relativity---is distinguished from other theories of space and time in virtue of its background independence. It's also often claimed that background independence is an essential feature of any quantum theory of gravity. But are these claims true? This book aspires to offer definitive answers to both of these questions, by (a) charting the space of possible definitions of background independence, and (b) applying said definitions to various classical and quantum theories of gravity. The outcome, in brief, is as follows: General Relativity is not unique by virtue of its background independence (and, indeed, fails to be background independent on some popular definitions); moreover, the situation in the case of quantum theories of gravity is delicate, because (i) there are viable such theories which (by some accounts, at least) fail to be background independent, but also (ii) theories (e.g. perturbative string theory) which have often been dismissed for (allegedly) being background dependent in fact, on many accounts, are better classified as background independent. In giving these answers in rigorous detail, this book seeks to elevate the standards and generality of future discussions of background independence in the foundations of spacetime theories.