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Quantum Gravity: A Brief History of Ideas and Some Prospects

Steven Carlip
(
- UC, Davis
)
,
Dah-Wei Chiou
(
- Taiwan, Natl. Normal U. and
- Taiwan, Natl. Taiwan U.
)
,
Wei-Tou Ni
(
- Taiwan, Natl. Tsing Hua U.
)
,
Richard Woodard
(
- Florida U.
)

Jul 29, 2015

23 pages

Published in:

Int.J.Mod.Phys.D 24 (2015) 11, 1530028

Published: Aug 6, 2015

e-Print:

1507.08194 [gr-qc]

DOI:

10.1142/S0218271815300281

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Abstract: (WSP)

We present a bird's-eye survey on the development of fundamental ideas of quantum gravity, placing emphasis on perturbative approaches, string theory, loop quantum gravity (LQG) and black hole thermodynamics. The early ideas at the dawn of quantum gravity as well as the possible observations of quantum gravitational effects in the foreseeable future are also briefly discussed.

Note:

Invited review article. A few parts based on arXiv:1410.1486 and arXiv:1412.4362. To appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys. D and in "One Hundred Years of General Relativity: From Genesis and Empirical Foundations to Gravitational Waves, Cosmology and Quantum Gravity," edited by Wei-Tou Ni (World Scientific, Singapore, 2015)

04.60.−m
04.60.-m
Perturbative quantum gravity
string theory
loop quantum gravity
black hole thermodynamics
quantum gravity phenomenology
quantum gravity: effect
black hole: thermodynamics
string model

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