Quantum geometry: a statistical field theory approach
Auteur :
Ambjørn, Jan / Durhuus, Bergfinnur / Jonsson, Thordur
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521017367
Date de publication :
15 déc. 2005
Dimensions :
24,5 x 17,0 x 2,0 cm
Poids :
593 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
This graduate/research level text describes in a unified fashion the statistical mechanics of random walks, random surfaces and random higher dimensional manifolds with an emphasis on the geometrical aspects of the theory and applications to the quantisation of strings, gravity and topological field theory.