Loop Quantum Gravity

   Friday ,    9:15 - 10:45   Seminarroom Philosophenweg 19

Rough outline:

• Introduction: The various approaches to Quantum Gravity and perspectives


• Canonical quantisation of Gravity
  • ADM fomalism
  • Differential geometry
  • Dreibein- and Connection formalism
  • Loop Representation
  • Spin Networks
  • Imposing the Diffeomorphism and Hamiltonian constraint
  • Spectrum of surface and volume operators
  • Construction of a physical Hilbert space


• Interpretational issues of Quantum Gravity


• Quantum Gravity in 2+1 dimensions


• Spin Foams


• Loop Quantum Cosmology


• Other approaches to Quantum Gravity
  • Causal Dynamical Triangulation
  • Asymptotic Savety, Renormalization Group

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