Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime: Quantized Fields and Gravity

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.

Author: Leonard Parker, David Toms
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/21/2009
Pages: 472
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.15lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.90w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780521877879

About the Author
Parker, Leonard: - 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.Toms, David: - David J. Toms is a Reader in Mathematical Physics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Newcastle University. His research interests include the formalism of quantum field theory and its applications, and his most recent interests involve the use of quantum field theory methods in low energy quantum gravity.