Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime: Quantized Fields and Gravity
Leonard Parker, David Toms - Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime: Quantized Fields and Gravity
Published: 2009-09-21 | ISBN: 0521877873 | PDF | 472 pages | 18 MB
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.