Quantum Gravity and Cosmology Based on Conformal Field Theory
Ken-ji Hamada
Jan 2019 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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What is the world beyond the Planck scale that provides the minimum unit of the universe? The goal of quantum gravity is to reveal physical laws in such a world. There, quantum fluctuations of gravity become large, and what is called a background-free world where the concept of time and distance is lost shall be realized. The renormalizable quantum gravity introduced in this book offers a theory in which such a world is described by a certain conformal field theory and a deviation from there is handled as a perturbation. This is the state-of-the-art of modern physics that will help in understanding the history of the universe, from its birth to the present.
About the author
Ken-ji Hamada is an Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan, having received his PhD in Physics from Hiroshima University in 1989. As a graduate student and postdoctoral fellow, he mainly studied string theory, including conducting research on two-dimensional conformal field theory and two-dimensional quantum gravity. He then proposed a new approach to renormalizable quantum gravity based on conformal field theory.
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