By: Andres Gomberoff (Editor), Donald Marolf (Editor)

Hardcover

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The 2002 Pan-American Advanced Studies Institute School on Quantum Gravity was held at the Centro de Estudios Cientificos (CECS), Valdivia, Chile, January 4-14, 2002. The school featured lectures by ten speakers, and was attended by nearly 70 students from over 14 countries. A primary goal was to foster interaction and communication between participants from different cultures, both in the laymana (TM)s sense of the term and in terms of approaches to quantum gravity. We hope that the links formed by students and the school will persist throughout their professional lives, continuing to promote interaction and the essential exchange of ideas that drives research forward.

This volume contains improved and updated versions of the lectures given at the School. It has been prepared both as a reminder for the participants, and so that these pedagogical introductions can be made available to others who were unable to attend. We expect them to serve students of all ages well.

Contributing Authors
Preface
The Thermodynamics of Black Holes
Introduction to Quantum Fields in Curved Spacetime and the Hawking Effect
Large N field theories and gravity
Lectures on D-branes, tachyon condensation, and string field theory
Billiard dynamics, Thibault Damour, Marc Henneaux
Tall tales from de Sitter space
Causal Sets: Discrete Gravity
Thermal Decay of the Cosmological Constant into Black Holes, Andres Gomberoff, Marc Henneaux, Claudio Teitelboim
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ISBN: 9780387239958
ISBN-10: 0387239952
Series: Series of the Centro De Estudios Cientificos
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 366
Published: 1st May 2005
Dimensions (cm): 24.8 x 16.5  x 2.5
Weight (kg): 0.81