Kiefer C. Quantum gravity

INDEX 359
Hawking temperature, 14, 205
helicity, 27, 32
heterotic string, 297
hierarchy problem, 302
higher-derivative quantum gravity, 46
Hilbert space
in connection dynamics, 184
Klein–Gordon type, 142
problem of, 136
Schrödinger type, 141
holographic principle, 301
holonomy, 130
homogeneous Lagrangians, 74
horizon, 202
horizontal stacking, 94, 116
Hubble parameter, 246
inflationary universe, 3, 318
information-loss problem, 209, 236
inhomogeneities
in quantum cosmology, 258
intrinsic time, 250
isolated horizon, 219
it from bit, 218
Jacobi’s action, 96
Jeans length, 239
Jordan frame, 289
Klein–Gordon equation, 79, 169
label time, 74
lapse function, 75, 79, 88, 107
large diffeomorphisms, 145
Leibniz group, 94
Lemaître–Tolman–Bondi model, 229
Lichnerowicz equation, 140
little group, 32
loop algebra, 131
loop quantum gravity, 181
loop variables, 130, 184
M-theory, 298
many-fingered time, 91
Mashhoon effect, 11
mass-shell condition, 78
master constraint programme, 198
matrix theory, 298
mean field, 56
minisuperspace, 244
mixmaster universe, 244
moduli space, 257, 288
momentum constraints, 88, 113
quantum, 141, 144
momentum modes, 292
multiple-choice problem, 139, 250
Nambu–Goto action, 81
Neumann condition
in string theory, 280
neutron interferometry, 7, 8
Neveu–Schwarz boundary conditions, 296
Newtonian potential
quantum-gravitational correction, 54
no-boundary proposal, 263, 269
no-hair conjecture
cosmological, 4
no-hair theorem
for black holes, 14, 199
non-canonical gauge, 81
non-commutative geometry, 295
non-metric phase, 289
non-relativistic particle
parametrized, 73
non-renormalizability of quantum gravity,
43
observables, 77, 117, 135
one-loop approximation, 51
one-loop effective action, 58, 271
one-loop divergences, 52
open spaces
canonical formalism for, 118
path integral
Euclidean, 40
in string theory, 285
path integral composition law, 39
path-integral quantization, 39, 151
Pauli term, 44
perennials, 117, 136
phantom fields, 256
photon, 33
from string theory, 284
Planck potential, 272
Planck units, 5
Poincaré group, 31
pointer states, 308
polarization tensor, 26
Polyakov action, 83, 285
prefactor equation, 169, 175
primordial black holes, 238
problem of time, 4, 136
quantum connection dynamics, 181
quantum cosmology, 244
from string theory, 255
loop quantum cosmology, 272
supersymmetric, 254
quantum cryptography, 20
quantum geometrodynamics, 133
quantum geometry, 186
quantum gravity