Quantum Field Theory and Gravity

1. Quantum Gravity: Whence, Whither?
Claus Kiefer

2. Local Covariance and Background Independence
Klaus Fredenhagen, Katarzyna Rejzner

3. The “Big Wave” Theory for Dark Energy
Blake Temple

4. Discrete and Continuum Third Quantization of Gravity
Steffen Gielen, Daniele Oriti

5. Unsharp Values, Domains and Topoi
Andreas Döring, Rui Soares Barbosa

6. Causal Boundary of Spacetimes:Revision and Applications to AdS/CFT Correspondence
José Luis Flores, Jónatan Herrera, Miguel Sánchez

7. Some Mathematical Aspects of the Hawking Effect for Rotating Black Holes
Dietrich Häfner

8. Observables in the General Boundary Formulation
Robert Oeckl

9. Causal Fermion Systems: A Quantum Space-Time Emerging From an Action Principle
Felix Finster, Andreas Grotz, Daniela Schiefeneder

10. CCR- versus CAR-Quantization on Curved Spacetimes
Christian Bär, Nicolas Ginoux

11. On the Notion of ‘the Same Physics in All Spacetimes’
Christopher J. Fewster

12. Local Covariance, Renormalization Ambiguity, and Local Thermal Equilibrium in Cosmology
Rainer Verch

13. Shape Dynamics. An Introduction
Julian Barbour

14. On the Motion of Point Defects in Relativistic Fields
Michael K.-H. Kiessling

15. How Unique Are Higher-dimensional Black Holes?
Stefan Hollands

16. Equivalence Principle, Quantum Mechanics, and Atom-Interferometric Tests
Domenico Giulini

Keywords: Mathematics, Global Analysis and Analysis on Manifolds, Field Theory and Polynomials