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Tables of Contents for Euclidean Quantum Gravity
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
ix
I. GENERAL FORMALISM
One-Loop Divergencies in the Theory of Gravitation
3
26
G. 't Hooft
M. Veltman
The Path-Integral Approach to Quantum Gravity
29
44
S. W. Hawking
S. W. Hawking
W. Israel
Euclidean Quantum Gravity
73
29
S. W. Hawking
M. Levy
S. Deser
Path Integrals and the Indefiniteness of the Gravitational Action
102
10
G. W. Gibbons
S. W. Hawking
M. J. Perry
Proof of the Positive Action Conjecture in Quantum Relativity
112
2
R. Schoen
S. T. Yau
Zeta Function Regularization of Path Integrals in Curved Spacetime
114
16
S. W. Hawking
The Conformal Rotation in Perturbative Gravity
130
22
K. Schleich
Quantum Tunneling and Negative Eigenvalues
152
9
S. Coleman
A Relation Between Volume, Mean Curvature and Diameter
161
1
R. L. Bishop
The Cosmological Constant is Probably Zero
162
5
S. W. Hawking
II. BLACK HOLES
Particle Creation by Black Holes
167
22
S. W. Hawking
Path Integral Derivation of Black-Hole Radiance
189
16
J. B. Hartle
S. W. Hawking
Black Holes and Thermal Green Functions
205
28
G. W. Gibbons
M. J. Perry
Action Integrals and Partition Functions in Quantum Gravity
233
5
G. W. Gibbons
S. W. Hawking
Instability of Flat Space at Finite Temperature
238
26
D. J. Gross
M. J. Perry
L. G. Yaffe
Thermal Stress Tensor in Static Einstein Spaces
264
11
D. N. Page
Quantum Stess Tensor in Schwarzschild Space-Time
275
6
K. W. Howard
P. Candelas
III. QUANTUM COSMOLOGY
Cosmological Event Horizons. Thermodynamics and Particle Creation
281
14
G. W. Gibbons
S. W. Hawking
Gravitational Effects on and of Vacuum Decay
295
11
S. Coleman
F. de Luccia
Supercooled Phases Transitions in the Very Early Universe
306
4
S. W. Hawking
I. G. Moss
Wave Function of the Universe
310
16
J. B. Hartle
S. W. Hawking
The Quantum State of the Universe
326
20
S. W. Hawking
Origin of Structure in the Universe
346
17
J. J. Halliwell
S. W. Hawking
IV. WORMHOLES
Wormholes in Spacetime
363
7
S. W. Hawking
Axion-Induced Topology Change in Quantum Gravity and String Theory
370
18
S. B. Giddings
A. Strominger
Why There is Nothing Rather than Something: A Theory of the Cosmological Constant
388
26
S. Coleman
Wormholes and the Cosmological Constant
414
28
I. Klebanov
L. Susskind
T. Banks
Wormholes in Spacetime and the Constants of Nature
442
46
J. Preskill
Wormholes in Spacetime and &thetas;QCD
488
9
J. Preskill
S. P. Trivedi
M. B. Wise
V. GRAVITATIONAL INSTANTONS
Asymptotically Flat Self-Dual Solutions to Euclidean Gravity
497
3
T. Eguchi
A. J. Hanson
Gravitational Multi-Instantons
500
3
G. W. Gibbons
S. W. Hawking
The Positive Action Conjecture and Asymptotically Euclidean Metrics in Quantum Gravity
503
24
G. W. Gibbons
C. N. Pope
Polygons and Gravitons
527
12
N. J. Hitchin
The Construction of ALE Spaces as Hyper-Kahler Quotients
539
19
P. B. Kronheimer
J. Diff
A Compact Rotating Gravitational Instaton
558
4
D. N. Page
Classification of Gravitational Instanton Symmetries
562
20
G. W. Gibbons
S. W. Hawking
Low Energy Scattering of Non-Abelian Monopoles
582
M. F. Atiyah
N. J. Hitchin