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Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime: Quantized Fields and Gravity

Autor Leonard Parker, David Toms
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 aug 2009
Quantum field theory in curved spacetime has been remarkably fruitful. It can be used to explain how the large-scale structure of the universe and the anisotropies of the cosmic background radiation that we observe today first arose. Similarly, it provides a deep connection between general relativity, thermodynamics, and quantum field theory. This book develops quantum field theory in curved spacetime in a pedagogical style, suitable for graduate students. The authors present detailed, physically motivated, derivations of cosmological and black hole processes in which curved spacetime plays a key role. They explain how such processes in the rapidly expanding early universe leave observable consequences today, and how in the context of evaporating black holes, these processes uncover deep connections between gravitation and elementary particles. The authors also lucidly describe many other aspects of free and interacting quantized fields in curved spacetime.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521877879
ISBN-10: 0521877873
Pagini: 472
Ilustrații: Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 180 x 253 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.98 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface; Conventions and notation; 1. Quantum fields in Minkowski spacetime; 2. Basics of quantum fields in curved spacetimes; 3. Expectation values quadratic in fields; 4. Particle creation by black holes; 5. The one-loop effective action; 6. The effective action: non-gauge theories; 7. The effective action: gauge theories; Appendixes; References; Index.

Recenzii

"While readers of Birrel and Davies will certainly like this new book, newcomers and students will appreciate the breadth and the style of a treatise written by two well known scientists who have dedicated their lives to the understanding of the treatment of quantum fields in a fixed gravitational background."
Massimo Giovannini, CERN Courier
"This is an interesting book which contains a lot of material about an important topic of theoretical physics."
Michael Keyl, Mathematical Reviews

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Descriere

Suitable for graduate students, this book develops quantum field theory in curved spacetime in a pedagogical style.