UID:
almafu_9960119239702883
Format:
1 online resource (ix, 340 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-107-38459-1
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0-511-62263-5
Series Statement:
Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics
Content:
This book presents a comprehensive review of the subject of gravitational effects in quantum field theory. Although the treatment is general, special emphasis is given to the Hawking black hole evaporation effect, and to particle creation processes in the early universe. The last decade has witnessed a phenomenal growth in this subject. This is the first attempt to collect and unify the vast literature that has contributed to this development. All the major technical results are presented, and the theory is developed carefully from first principles. Here is everything that students or researchers will need to embark upon calculations involving quantum effects of gravity at the so-called one-loop approximation level.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Conventions and abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Quantum field theory in Minkowski space -- 2.1 Scalar field -- 2.2 Quantization -- 2.3 Energy-momentum -- 2.4 Vacuum energy divergence -- 2.5 Dirac spinor field -- 2.6 Electromagnetic field -- 2.7 Green functions -- 2.8 Path-integral quantization -- 3 Quantum field theory in curved spacetime -- 3.1 Spacetime structure -- 3.2 Scalar field quantization -- 3.3 Meaning of the particle concept: particle detectors -- 3.4 Cosmological particle creation: a simple example -- 3.5 Adiabatic vacuum -- 3.6 Adiabatic expansion of Green functions -- 3.7 Conformal vacuum -- 3.8 Fields of arbitrary spin in curved spacetime -- 4 Flat spacetime examples -- 4.1 Cylindrical two-dimensional spacetime -- 4.2 Use of Green functions -- 4.3 Boundary effects -- 4.4 Moving mirrors -- 4.5 Quantum field theory in Rindler space -- 5 Curved spacetime examples -- 5.1 Robertson-Walker spacetimes -- 5.2 Static Robertson-Walker spacetimes -- 5.3 The Milne universe -- 5.4 De Sitter space -- 5.5 Classification of conformal vacua -- 5.6 Bianchi I spacetimes and perturbation theory -- 6 Stress-tensor renormalization -- 6.1 The fundamental problem -- 6.2 Renormalization in the effective action -- 6.3 Conformal anomalies and the massless case -- 6.4 Computing the renormalized stress-tensor -- 6.5 Other regularization methods -- 6.6 Physical significance of the stress-tensor -- 7 Applications of renormalization techniques -- 7.1 Two-dimensional examples -- 7.2 Robertson-Walker models -- 7.3 Perturbation calculation of the stress-tensor -- 7.4 Cosmological considerations -- 8 Quantum black holes -- 8.1 Particle creation by a collapsing spherical body -- 8.2 Physical aspects of black hole emission -- 8.3 Eternal black holes -- 8.4 Analysis of the stress-tensor.
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8.5 Further developments -- 9 Interacting fields -- 9.1 Calculation of S-matrix elements -- 9.2 Self-interacting scalar field in curved spacetime -- 9.3 Particle production due to interaction -- 9.4 Other effects of interactions -- References -- Index.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-27858-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-23385-2
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511622632
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