Leonard Parker

Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime (eBook, ePUB)

Quantized Fields and Gravity

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139637619
• Artikelnr.: 52954568

Autorenporträt

Leonard Parker is a Distinguished Professor in the Physics Department at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. In the 1960s, he was the first to use quantum field theory to show that the gravitational field of the expanding universe creates elementary particles from the vacuum.

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Rezensionen

"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