Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword, by Chris Isham
- Preface
- Notation and conventions
- Introduction: Defining quantum gravity
- I CLASSICAL FOUNDATIONS, INTERPRETATION AND THE CANONICAL QUANTISATION PROGRAMME
- 1 Classical Hamiltonian formulation of General Relativity
- 2 The problem of time, locality and the interpretation of quantum mechanics
- 3 The programme of canonical quantisation
- 4 The new canonical variables of Ashtekar for General Relativity
- II FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN CANONICAL QUANTUM GENERAL RELATIVITY
- III PHYSICAL APPLICATIONS
- IV MATHEMATICAL TOOLS AND THEIR CONNECTION TO PHYSICS
- References
- Index
4 - The new canonical variables of Ashtekar for General Relativity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword, by Chris Isham
- Preface
- Notation and conventions
- Introduction: Defining quantum gravity
- I CLASSICAL FOUNDATIONS, INTERPRETATION AND THE CANONICAL QUANTISATION PROGRAMME
- 1 Classical Hamiltonian formulation of General Relativity
- 2 The problem of time, locality and the interpretation of quantum mechanics
- 3 The programme of canonical quantisation
- 4 The new canonical variables of Ashtekar for General Relativity
- II FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN CANONICAL QUANTUM GENERAL RELATIVITY
- III PHYSICAL APPLICATIONS
- IV MATHEMATICAL TOOLS AND THEIR CONNECTION TO PHYSICS
- References
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Modern Canonical Quantum General Relativity , pp. 118 - 138Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007