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Introduction to quantum effects in gravity /
This textbook covers quantum field theory for undergraduates and graduates in theoretical astrophysics, cosmology, particle physics, and string theory.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Canonical quantization and particle production
- Overview : a taste of quantum fields
- Reminder : classical and quantum theory
- Driven harmonic oscillator
- From harmonic oscillators to fields
- Reminder : classical fields
- Quantum fields in expanding universe
- Quantum fields in the de Sitter universe
- Unruh effect
- Hawking effect, thermodynamics of black holes
- The Casimir effect
- Path integrals and vacuum polarization
- Path integrals
- Effective action
- Calculation of heat kernel
- Results from effective action.