Section I: Effective Quantum Gravity Section Editors: Cliff Burgess (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada; cburgess@perimeterinstitute.ca) John Donoghue (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA; donoghue@physics.umass.edu Section II: Perturbative Quantum Gravity Section Editors: Ilya Shapiro (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil; ilyashapiro2003@ufjf.br) Chapter: The background information about perturbative quantum gravity Ilya Shapiro (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil; ilyashapiro2003@ufjf.br) Chapter: On the covaraint renormalization in the models of quantum gravity Peter M. Lavrov (Tomsk State Pedagogical University, Tomsk, Russia; lavrov@tspu.edu.
ru) Ilya Shapiro (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil; ilyashapiro2003@ufjf.br) Chapter: Quantum cosmological gravitational waves? Patrick Peter (Institut d''Astrophysique de Paris, Paris, France; peter@iap.fr) Amaury Micheli (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France; amaury.micheli@ijclab.in2p3.fr) Chapter: One-loop divergences in higher-derivative gravity Nobuyoshi Ohta (National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan; ohtan@ncu.edu.tw) Chapter: Horava models as palladium of unitarity and renormalizability in local quantum gravity theory Andrei Barvinsky (Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia; barvin@td.
lpi.ru) Alexander Kamenshchik (Bologna University, Bologna, Italy; Alexander.Kamenshchik@bo.infn.it) Chapter: Nonminimal Higgs Inflation and Initial Conditions in Cosmology Andrei Barvinsky (Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow, Russia; barvin@td.lpi.ru) Alexander Kamenshchik (Bologna University, Bologna, Italy; Alexander.Kamenshchik@bo.
infn.it) Chapter: Black hole thermodynamics and quantum gravity Dmitri V. Fursaev (Dubna State University, Dubna, Russia; fursaev@thsun1.jinr.ru) Chapter: The Vilkovisky-DeWitt effective action for quantum gravity: Introduction and applications David Toms (Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; david.toms@newcastle.ac.uk) Section III: Asymptotically Safe Quantum Gravity Section Editors: Roberto Percacci (SISSA, Trieste, Italy; percacci@sissa.
it) Chapter: The functional renormalization group in quantum gravity Martin Reuter (University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany; reutma00@uni-mainz.de) Frank Saueressig (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; f.saueressig@science.ru.nl) Chapter: The vertex expansion Jan M. Pawlowski (University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany; J.Pawlowski@thphys.uni-heidelberg.
de) Manuel Reichert (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; M.Reichert@sussex.ac.uk) Chapter: Polynomial f(R) and related approximations Daniel F. Litim (University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; D.Litim@sussex.ac.uk) Chapter: The functional f(R) approximation Tim R.
Morris (University of Southampton, Southampton, UK; T.R.Morris@soton.ac.uk) Chapter: Asymptotic safety in gravity with curvature square terms Kevin Falls (SISSA, Trieste, Italy; kevin.g.falls@gmail.com) Nobuyoshi Ohta (National Central University, Taoyuan, Taiwan; ohtan@ncu.
edu.tw) Chapter: Asymptotically safe gravity at the level of form factors Frank Saueressig (Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; f.saueressig@science.ru.nl) Chapter: Asymptotic safety of gravity and matter Astrid Eichhorn (University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; eichhorn@sdu.dk) Mark Schiffer (University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; mschiffer@perimeterinstitute.ca) Chapter: Asymptotic safety and cosmology Alfio Bonanno (Catania Astrophysical Observatory, Catania, Italy; alfio.bonanno@inaf.
it) Chapter: Black holes in asymptotically safe gravity Alessia Platania (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada; aplatania@perimeterinstitute.ca) Section IV: Nonlocal Quantum Gravity Section Editors: Leonardo Modesto (SUSTech, Shenzhen, China; lmodesto@sustc.edu.cn) Chapter: Nonlocal Gauge Theories including Quantum Gravity Nikolay V. Krasnikov (Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, Russia; krasniko@inr.ac.ru) Chapter: Classical Nonlocal Field Theories and Gravity Gianluca Calcagni (Instituto de Estructura de la Materia/CSIC, Madrid, Spain; g.calcagni@csic.
es) Chapter: Nonlocal Quantum Gravity Leslaw Rachwal (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil; grzerach@gmail.com) Chapter: Unitarity and Cutkosky cuts in Nonlocal Field Theory Fabio Briscese (SUSTech, Shenzhen, China; briscese.phys@gmail.com) Chapter: Linear and Nonlinear Perturbative Stability in Nonlocal Gravity Fabio Briscese (SUSTech, Shenzhen, China; briscese.phys@gmail.com) Tentative Table of Contents - January 11, 2022 3 Chapter: Scattering Amplitudes in Nonlocal Gravity Stefano Giaccari (Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel; stefanog@hit.ac.il) Chapter: Causality in Classical and Quantum Nonlocal Gravity Stefano Giaccari (Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel; stefanog@hit.
ac.il) Chapter: Mathematical aspects of analytic infinite derivative gravity theories Alexey S. Koshelev (Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilh~a, Portugal; ak@inpcs.net) Chapter: Nonlocal Unified Theory Leonardo Modesto (SUSTech, Shenzhen, China; lmodesto@sustc.edu.cn) Section V: Supergravity Section Editors: Sylvester James Gates Jr. (Brown University, Providence, USA; sylvester gates@brown.edu) Konstantinos Koutrolikos (Brown University, Providence, USA; konstantinos koutrolikos@brown.
edu) Chapter: Formulations of 4D, N = 1 Supergravity Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (vannieu@gmail.com) TBC Sergei Kuzenko (University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; sergei.kuzenko@uwa.edu.au) Leonardo Castellani (University of Eastern Piedmont, Alessandria, Italy; leonardo.castellani@uniupo.it) Chapter: Extended Supergravity Theories and Higher Dimensions Antoine van Proeyen (KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; Antoine.VanProeyen@fys.
kuleuven.be) Evgeny Ivanov (JINR, Dubna, Russia; eivanov@theor.jinr.ru) Hermann Nicolai (MPI for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam, Germany; hermann.nicolai@aei.mpg.de) TBC Ergin Sezgin (Texas A&M University, College Station, USA; sezgin@tamu.edu) Chapter: Conformal Supergravity TBC Chapter: Pure Spinors Martin Cederwall (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden; martin.
cederwall@chalmers.se) Chapter: Quantum Corrections Renata Kallosh (kallosh@stanford.edu) TBC Martin Rocek (martin.rocek@stonybrook.edu) TBC Zvi Bern (bern@physics.ucla.edu) TBC Chapter: Supergravity Breaking and Phenomenology Michel Rausch de Traubenberg (Strasbourg University, Strasbourg, France; Michel.Rausch@iphc.
cnrs.fr) TBC Sergei V. Ketov (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan; ketov@tmu.ac.jp) Eric Bergshoeff (University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; e.a.bergshoeff@rug.nl) Section VI: String Theories Section Editors: Carlo Angelantonj (Turin University, Turin, Italy; carlo.
angelantonj@unito.it) Ignatios Antoniadis (Sorbonne Universit´e, Paris, France; antoniad@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Chapter: Introduction to String Theory TBC Chapter: Scattering Amplitudes Tomasz Taylor (Northeastern University, Boston, USA; taylor@neu.edu) Stephan Stieberger (MPI for Physics, Munich, Germany; stephan.stieberger@mpp.mpg.de) Chapter: Compactification and Effective Field Theory TBC Chapter: Model Building in Heterotic String Hans-Peter Nilles (University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; nilles@th.
physik.uni-bonn.de) Ioannis Rizos (University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece; irizos@uoi.gr) Chapter: Model Building in D-branes and F-theory Bert Schellekens (NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; t58@nikhef.nl) Chapter: Moduli Stabilisation and Cosmology Shamit Kachru (Stanford University, Stanford, USA; skachru@stanford.edu) Ferdinando Quevedo (Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK; f.quevedo@damtp.cam.
ac.uk) Chapter: Supersymmetry Breaking Emilian Dudas (Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France; emilian.dudas@polytechnique.edu) Ioannis Florakis (University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece; iflorakis@uoi.gr) Jihad Mourad (Universit´e de Paris, Paris, France; mourad@apc.univ-paris7.fr) Augusto Sagnotti (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy; sagnotti@sns.it) Chapter: D-branes Costas Bachas (LPT, Paris, France; bachas@lpt.
ens.fr) Massimo Bianchi (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy; massimo.bianchi@roma2.infn.it) Chapter: D-branes for Gauge Theories Michael Douglas (Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA; mdouglas@scgp.stonybrook.edu) TBC Chapter: String Field Theory Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad, India; sen@hri.res.
in) Chapter: Pure Spinor Formulation and its Applications Nathan Berkovits (Universidade Estadual Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil; nathan.berkovits@unes.