Quantum Gravity

These are lecture notes 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.

Download

Here you can download the notes in various formats

PDF[960 Kb]; gzipped[881 Kb]
PostScript[1.9 Mb]; gzipped[734 Kb]
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]

Contribute

To contribute to the effort of completing the 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