Quantization of Geometry

Abstract

Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Bosonic propagators and random paths 3. Random surfaces and strings 4. Matrix models and two-dimensional quantum gravity 5. The mystery of $c>1$ 6. Euclidean quantum gravity in $d>2$ 7. Discussion

101 pages, 31 figures. Lectures presented at the 1994 Les Houches Summer School ``Fluctuating Geometries in Statistical Mechanics and Field Theory.'' (also available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/lh94/ )

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