Planck Scale Effects in Astrophysics and Cosmology

R. Aloisio, P. Blasi, A. Galante (auth.), Jurek Kowalski-Glikman, Giovanni Amelino-Camelia (eds.)3540252630, 9783540252634

This volume is composed of extensive and detailed notes from the lectures given at the 40th Karpacz Winter School. This school focussed on quantum gravity phenomenology with emphasis on its relation to observational astrophysics and cosmology. These notes have been carefully edited with the aim to give advanced students and young researchers a balanced and accessible introduction to an rather heavily mathematical subject.

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Table of contents :
Planck Scale Kinematics and the Pierre Auger Observatory….Pages 1-30
Quantum Gravity….Pages 31-58
Introduction to Quantum-Gravity Phenomenology….Pages 59-100
Astrophysical Bounds on Planck Suppressed Lorentz Violation….Pages 101-130
Introduction to Doubly Special Relativity….Pages 131-159
Interferometry as a Universal Tool in Physics….Pages 161-198
Inflationary Cosmological Perturbations of Quantum-Mechanical Origin….Pages 199-244
CPT Violation and Decoherence in Quantum Gravity….Pages 245-320
Quantum Foam and Quantum Gravity Phenomenology….Pages 321-349
Gamma-Ray Bursts as Probes for Quantum Gravity….Pages 351-362
Loop Quantum Gravity and planck Scale Phenomenology….Pages 363-408