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Quantum Gravity

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This chapter presents the motivations to quantize gravity and gives a brief introduction into the main approches.

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Abbreviations

AdS:

anti-de Sitter

BICEP:

background imaging of cosmic extragalactic polarization

CFT:

conformal field theory

CMB:

cosmic microwave background

COW:

Colella, Overhauser, and Werner

GPS:

global positioning system

GR:

general relativity

LHC:

large hadron collider

QCD:

quantum chromodynamics

QED:

quantum electrodynamics

SUGRA:

supergravity

WKB:

Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin

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Kiefer, C. (2014). Quantum Gravity. In: Ashtekar, A., Petkov, V. (eds) Springer Handbook of Spacetime. Springer Handbooks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41992-8_33

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