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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      30 October 2009
      13 July 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511524424
      9780521552875
      9780521675628
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.661kg, 270 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.433kg, 272 Pages
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    This volume provides a comprehensive and coherent introduction to modern quantum cosmology - the study of the universe as a whole according to the laws of quantum mechanics. In particular, it presents a useful survey of the many profound consequences of supersymmetry (supergravity) in quantum cosmology. After a general introduction to quantum cosmology, the reader is led through Hamiltonian supergravity and canonical quantization and quantum amplitudes through to models of supersymmetric mini superspace and quantum wormholes. The book is rounded off with a look at exciting further developments, including the possible finiteness of supergravity. Ample introductory material is included, ensuring this topical volume is well suited as a graduate text. Researchers in theoretical and mathematical physics, applied maths and cosmology will also find it of immediate interest.

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    ‘… admirably lucid, very carefully organized, and I recommend it highly.’

    David Bailin Source: The Observatory

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