Bei-Lok B. Hu is Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and co-authored Nonequilibrium Quantum Field Theory (Cambridge, 2008). His research in theoretical physics focuses on gravitation and quantum theory.
Preface
1. Overview: main themes. Key issues. Reader's guide
Part I. Effective Action and Regularization, Stress Tensor and Fluctuations: 2. `In-out' effective action. Dimensional regularization
3. `In-in' effective action. Stress tensor. Thermal fields
4. Stress-energy tensor and correlators: zeta-function method
5. Stress-energy tensor and correlation. Point separation
Part II. Infrared Behavior, 2Pi, 1/n Backreaction and Semiclassical Gravity: 6. Infrared behavior of interacting quantum fields
7. Advanced field theory topics
8. Backreaction of early universe quantum processes
Part III. Stochastic Gravity: 9. Metric correlations at one-loop: in-in and large N
10. The Einstein-Langevin equation
11. Metric fluctuations in Minkowski spacetime
Part IV. Cosmological and Black Hole Backreaction with Fluctuations: 12. Cosmological backreaction with fluctuations
13. Structure formation in the early universe
14. Black hole backreaction and fluctuations
Part V. Quantum Curvature Fluctuations in De Sitter Spacetime: 15. Stress-energy tensor fluctuations in de Sitter space
16. Two-point metric perturbations in de Sitter
17. Riemann tensor correlator in de Sitter
18. Epilogue: linkage with quantum gravity
References
Index.
