Quantum Gravity

These are lectures notes by Miguel Carrión Alvarez taken from a seminar on Quantum Gravity given by John Baez at UCR in the 2000-2001 and 2002-2003 academic years. The seminar is divided into four parts, one per quarter, corresponding to up to 10 weeks each.

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Here you can download the notes in various formats:

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DVI [2.4 Mb]; gzipped [730 Kb]
TEX [gzipped tar archive: 81 Kb]
You can download individual files or view them online:
- master file [2 Kb]
- First quarter
  - week 1 [22 Kb]
  - week 2 [18 Kb]
  - week 3 [12 Kb]
  - week 4 [12 Kb]
  - week 5 [12 Kb]
  - week 6 [18 Kb]
  - week 7 [39 Kb]
  - week 8 [24 Kb]
- Second quarter
  - week 9 [13 Kb]
  - week 10 [14 Kb]
  - week 11 [19 Kb]
  - week 12 [16 Kb]
  - week 13 [31 Kb]
- Third quarter
- Fourth quarter
  - week 31 [11 Kb]
  - week 32 [7 Kb]
  - week 33 [4 Kb]
  - week 34 [22 Kb]

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Ask not what quantum gravity can do for you: ask what you can do for quantum gravity! To contribute to the effort of completing these notes, download the source TeX files and mail me corrections and/or patches.

To compile the original or modified sources you need LaTeX, and Xy-pic, which is a standard package in any (La)TeX distribution.
Download the gzipped tar archive QGravity.tgz into a working directory. Then run either of the following commands:

tar -xzvf QGravity.tgz
gunzip -c QGravity.tgz | tar tvf -

All the TeX files will unpack into the working directory. To compile the notes, edit the master file QGravity.tex as necessary and run

latex QGravity.tex

to produce a DVI file. To view this file, use

xdvi QGravity.dvi &

dvips QGravity.dvi
gv QGravity.ps &

If gv is not available on your machine, use ghostview. You can produce a PDF file in any of two ways:

dvipdf QGravity.dvi
pdflatex QGravity.tex

and view it with

acroread QGravity.pdf &

To-do list

Change the sectioning scheme to have
- parts called quarters or books;
- chapters called weeks;
- sections called track n: descriptive title;
Rewrite
- Week 6 Track 2 (Yang-Mills Theory)
Complete
- Week 8 Track 2 (the Four-Colour Theorem)
Draw the few missing diagrams.
Add
- Week 4 (John Barrett's lecture)
- an index
- equation and diagram numbers
- cross-references

Quantum Gravity

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