Recent developments in gravitation (Cargese 1978 lectures)(p.1 to 273)

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Status of Experimental Gravitation....Pages 3-22
An Introduction to General Relativity and its Recent Achievements....Pages 23-40
Underlying Mathematical Structures of Classical Gravitation Theory....Pages 41-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Euclidean Quantum Gravity....Pages 145-173
Quantum Field Theory Renormalization in Curved Space-Time....Pages 175-217
Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space-Time: Effective Action and Energy-Momentum Tensor....Pages 219-273
The Formal Structure of Quantum Gravity....Pages 275-322
Quantum Gravity: A Fundamental Problem and Some Radical Ideas....Pages 323-345
Quantum Field Theory and Fibre Bundles in a General Space-Time....Pages 347-401
Front Matter....Pages 403-403
Supergravity and Superspace....Pages 405-459
The Dynamics of Supergravity....Pages 461-477
Extended Supersymmetry and Extended Supergravity Theories....Pages 479-517
Lectures in Supergravity Theory....Pages 519-548
Irreducible Representations of Supersymmetry....Pages 549-561
Massive Gravitinos....Pages 563-575
Anomalies in Supersymmetric Theories....Pages 577-592
Back Matter....Pages 593-596