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.
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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.
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.
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