**Meet the editor**

Rodrigo F. Sobreiro graduated from Rio de Janeiro State University in 2002 and obtained his PhD from the same University in 2007. He has worked as post-doctoral researcher at Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas and as visiting professor at Rio de Janeiro State University. Since 2009 he has a permanent professor position at

Fluminense Federal University. His research interest are in quantum, classical and geometrical aspects of gauge theories and their applications in confinement and quantum gravity.

Contents

**Preface VII** 

B.F.L. Ward

Chapter 4 **Quantum Gravity Insights** 

Rodrigo F. Sobreiro

L. Marek-Crnjac

Jerzy Król

Giovanni Modanese

Chapter 1 **Anomalous Gravitational Vacuum Fluctuations** 

Chapter 2 **Planck Scale Cosmology and Asymptotic Safety** 

Chapter 3 **S-Duality in Topological Supergravity 37** 

**Which Act as Virtual Oscillating Dipoles 1** 

Eckehard W. Mielke and Alí A. Rincón Maggiolo

**from Smooth 4-Geometries on Trivial <sup>4</sup>**

Chapter 5 **Fiber Bundles, Gauge Theories and Gravity 79** 

Chapter 6 **Quantum Gravity in Cantorian Space-Time 87** 

**in Resummed Quantum Gravity: An Estimate of 27** 

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