Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 A Quantum Field Theory of Gravity
- 2 The Functional Renormalization Group
- 3 The Asymptotic Safety Mechanism
- 4 A Functional Renormalization Group for Gravity
- 5 Truncations of Single-Metric Type
- 6 Bi-Metric Truncations
- 7 Conformally Reduced Gravity
- 8 The Reconstruction Problem
- 9 Alternative Field Variables
- 10 Matter Coupled to Quantum Gravity
- 11 Towards Phenomenology
- 12 Miscellanea
- Appendix A Notation and Conventions
- Appendix B Organizing the Derivative Expansion
- Appendix C Metric Variations
- Appendix D Heat Kernel Techniques
- Appendix E Cutoff- and Threshold Functions
- Appendix F Field Decompositions
- References
- Index
Appendix D - Heat Kernel Techniques
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 A Quantum Field Theory of Gravity
- 2 The Functional Renormalization Group
- 3 The Asymptotic Safety Mechanism
- 4 A Functional Renormalization Group for Gravity
- 5 Truncations of Single-Metric Type
- 6 Bi-Metric Truncations
- 7 Conformally Reduced Gravity
- 8 The Reconstruction Problem
- 9 Alternative Field Variables
- 10 Matter Coupled to Quantum Gravity
- 11 Towards Phenomenology
- 12 Miscellanea
- Appendix A Notation and Conventions
- Appendix B Organizing the Derivative Expansion
- Appendix C Metric Variations
- Appendix D Heat Kernel Techniques
- Appendix E Cutoff- and Threshold Functions
- Appendix F Field Decompositions
- References
- Index
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- Quantum Gravity and the Functional Renormalization GroupThe Road towards Asymptotic Safety, pp. 301 - 310Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019