Update on Towards QG Oriti's book

[marcus]

Update on "Towards QG" Oriti's book

Cambridge U. P. is scheduled to bring the book out this year
and I want to keep track of contributed chapters that have been posted on arxiv.

I remember there are chapters contributed by

Louis Crane

John Collins

Gambini and Pullin

Horowitz and Polchinski

Alejandro Perez (both solo and with Collins and Sudarsky)

this is a streamlined update of
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=852766#post852766
to see how the TOC is shaping up

different references give slightly different titles, all say approximately
Towards Quantum Gravity: approaches to a new understanding of space and time

From what we have seen so far at arxiv, it could be a very interesting book.

 

[marcus]

toc list so far

Here is the list of chapters that I know of. If you know others please add to the list!

Louis Crane
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0602120
Categorical Geometry and the Mathematical Foundations of Quantum General RelativityGambini and Pullin
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0512065
Consistent discretizations as a road to quantum gravityPerez
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0601095
The spin-foam-representation of loop quantum gravityCollins, Perez and Sudarsky
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0603002
Lorentz Invariance Violation and its Role in Quantum Gravity PhenomenologyHorowitz and Polchinski
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0602037
Gauge/gravity duality
=======footnote-type remarks======
Daniele Oriti, the editor of the book
Towards Quantum Gravity: approaches to a new understanding of space and time
has himself some recent articles that could probably be used, if he decided to put in some of his own stuff. For example:
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0602010
Group field theory formulation of 3d quantum gravity coupled to matter fields
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0512069
Generalised group field theories and quantum gravity transition amplitudes

He has also recently contributed a chapter to his book's COMPETITION, namely a similar Swiss collection called Mathematical and Physical Aspects of Quantum Gravity
There seem to be more QG books appearing these days. Oriti's contribution to the Swiss book is
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0512103
Quantum Gravity as a quantum field theory of simplicial geometry

 

[marcus]

Update: Here is the list of chapters that I know of. We now have six. If you know others please add to the list!

Louis Crane
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0602120
Categorical Geometry and the Mathematical Foundations of Quantum General RelativityGambini and Pullin
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0512065
Consistent discretizations as a road to quantum gravityPerez
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0601095
The spin-foam-representation of loop quantum gravityCollins, Perez and Sudarsky
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0603002
Lorentz Invariance Violation and its Role in Quantum Gravity PhenomenologyHorowitz and Polchinski
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0602037
Gauge/gravity dualityJerzy Kowalski-Glikman
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0603022
Doubly Special Relativity: facts and prospects

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Jerzy K-G gives the title of Oriti's book this way: "Approaches to Quantum Gravity - toward a new understanding of space, time, and matter"

I now think that this is probably right---the title Cambridge is going to use. I think other things i called it before are probably wrong. So I should be referring to this book as "Approaches to QG".

So we have a sixth chapter of the book. Jerzy K-G chapter is 19 pages. It is the best short survey of DSR that I've seen recently---and has some nuggets of intuition. It is not all algebra (there is plenty of that too but that's not all there is.)

I've talked to K-G on the internet and I like him. I am glad that Oriti invited him to do the DSR chapter.

K-G thinks that DSR is going to be one of the principal ways that Quantum Gravity manifests itself. His paper features the remarkable paper of Freidel and Livine (that derives DSR in 3D as a consequence of spinfoam QG+matter.) He gives a plausibility argument why if this happens in 3D it will most likely also happen in 4D (consider 4D situation with a planar distribution of matter...)

 

[marcus]

I had forgotten about Joe Henson and the Causal Sets approach (Fay Dowker, Rafael Sorkin)

Today, Christine reminds me.
http://christinedantas.blogspot.com/2006/03/draft-chapters-to-approaches-to.html

She has just listed the 7 Oritibook chapters that she knows about that are available online

I only got 6, in the preceding post, because I forgot about:
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0601121
Joe Henson on Causal Sets approach

BTW Christine has interesting graphics sometimes.
Today she has one by an Austrian mathematician named Martin Held who is at Uni Salzburg. She gives link to Held's page of algorithmic triangulations of polygons
http://www.cosy.sbg.ac.at/~held/projects/triang/triang.html

 

[josh1]

Hi Marcus,

I hope this isn't too off topic, but some readers of this thread may like to know that google has a feature which allows users to find books about their favourite subjects. For example, if you search under "loop quantum gravity", rovelli's book comes up followed by another book called "Towards Quantum Gravity : Proceedings of the XXXV International Winter School on Theoretical Physics, Held in Polanica, Poland, 2-11 February 1999 (Lecture Notes in Physics)" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3540669108/?tag=pfamazon01-20. Note that google searches not just the titles, but the entire contents of books. Also, google makes available a sizeable fraction of a given books contents.

 

[marcus]

thanks josh,
helpful reminder

 

[marcus]

8 chapters for "Towards QG"

Update: Here is the list of chapters that I know of. We now have eight. If you know others please add to the list!

Collins, Perez and Sudarsky
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0603002
Lorentz Invariance Violation and its Role in Quantum Gravity Phenomenology

Louis Crane
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0602120
Categorical Geometry and the Mathematical Foundations of Quantum General Relativity

Gambini and Pullin
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0512065
Consistent discretizations as a road to quantum gravity

Joe Henson
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0601121
The causal set approach to quantum gravity

Horowitz and Polchinski
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0602037
Gauge/gravity duality

Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0603022
Doubly Special Relativity: facts and prospects

Daniele Oriti
The group field theory approach to Quantum Gravity

Alejandro Perez
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0601095
The spin-foam-representation of loop quantum gravity

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In Oriti's CV it lists the book this way:
D. Oriti, editor, “Towards Quantum Gravity - Approaches to a new understanding of space and time”, Cambridge University Press, 2006 (scheduled).

 

[marcus]

Update: Here is the list of chapters that I know of. We now have eight. If you know others please add to the list!
...

We now know 9 chapters of Oriti's book.

Rovelli has contributed Chapter 1
a link to it is here
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=960671#post960671

if that link does not work, go to the most recent post (#474) in the QG reference thread
https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=7245

 

[neutrino]

Hello, marcus. Here's another update...

C.P.Burgess
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0606108
Quantum Gravity and Precision Tests

Comments: Contribution to `Towards Quantum Gravity,' edited by D. Oriti, Cambridge University Press, 2006; 18 pages, no figures

 

[marcus]

thanks neutrino!

we should do a complete update on this list. also there are some signs that Oriti and the publishers have decided on a revision of the title
Instead of "Towards QG" as earlier postings often had it, several recent papers have said

Approaches to Quantum Gravity: towards a new understanding of space, time, and matter

This was how Lee Smolin had it when he posted his contribution on arxiv, and also Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman.

I'll update the list and include the C.P. Burgess paper you mentioned.

I see Christine Dantas has a list of 14, last updated 23 June
http://christinedantas.blogspot.com/2006/03/draft-chapters-to-approaches-to.html

 

[marcus]

Chapters contributed to Oriti's book. When posted there was usually no indication that they had been accepted for publication---the comment said "submitted to" or "contribution to". I don't remember which were listed as definitely "for inclusion". I assume many if not all of the following are in that category.

Here is Christine's list with neutrino's addition, in reverse chronological
(latest first)

C.P.Burgess
Quantum Gravity and Precision Tests
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0606108
18 pages

Washington Taylor
String Field Theory
http://www.arxiv.org/hep-th/0605202
22 pages

Lee Smolin
Generic predictions of quantum theories of gravity
http://www.arxiv.org/hep-th/0605052

Fotini Markopoulou
Towards Gravity from the Quantum
http://www.arxiv.org/hep-th/0604120

J. Ambjorn, J. Jurkiewicz and R. Loll
Quantum Gravity, or The Art of Building Spacetime
http://www.arxiv.org/hep-th/0604212
22 pages, 6 figures

Shahn Majid
Algebraic approach to quantum gravity II: noncommutative spacetime
http://www.arxiv.org/hep-th/0604130
26 pages, 2 figures

Olaf Dreyer
Emergent General Relativity
http://www.arxiv.org/gr-qc/0604075

Carlo Rovelli
Unfinished revolution
http://www.arxiv.org/gr-qc/0604045

Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman
Doubly Special Relativity: facts and prospects
http://www.arxiv.org/gr-qc/0603022

John Collins, Alejandro Perez, Daniel Sudarsky
Lorentz Invariance Violation and its Role in Quantum Gravity Phenomenology
http://www.arxiv.org/hep-th/0603002

Louis Crane
Categorical Geometry and the Mathematical Foundations of Quantum General Relativity
http://www.arxiv.org/gr-qc/0602120

Gary T. Horowitz, Joseph Polchinski
Gauge/gravity duality
http://www.arxiv.org/gr-qc/0602037

Joe Henson
The causal set approach to quantum gravity
http://www.arxiv.org/gr-qc/0601121
22 pages, 4 figures

Alejandro Perez
The spin-foam-representation of loop quantum gravity
http://www.arxiv.org/gr-qc/0601095
19 pages

Rodolfo Gambini, Jorge Pullin
Consistent discretizations as a road to quantum gravity
http://www.arxiv.org/gr-qc/0512065
17 Pages