Quantum Gravity

14756.2097 | Summer term 2022

The course is 2 hours per week and planned to be given by video recordings. Videos will be available by Thursday evening every week, starting from April 14, 2022. This course is incomplete and will be completed here later.

In addition, there is a supplement to the lecture course for discussions, questions, exercises:
Thursdays, 11:00–11:45 in room 0.03 (new building).
Start: April 21,
No meeting on April 28 and May 5.

Specialized Master course within the Primary Area of Specialization GR-QFT

Contents of the lecture

Introduction to several approaches to unify gravity and quantum theory.

Lectures

Mirrors	Section	Release
	0. Overview & 1.Why Quantum Gravity? & 1.1. Quantum theory and the gravitational field	Apr 13
	1.2. Problems of a fundamentally semiclassical theory & 1.3. Approaches to quantum gravity	Apr 20
	2. Covariant approaches to quantum gravity & 2.1. The concept of a graviton	Apr 27
	Path-integral quantization	May 4

Literature

C. Kiefer, Quantum Gravity: Third Edition (Oxford University Press)
C. Kiefer, Conceptual Problems in Quantum Gravity and Quantum Cosmology, ISRN Mathematical Physics, 2013.