Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime: Quantized Fields and Gravity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521877879)

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
ISBN-10: 0521877873
ISBN-13: 9780521877879
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/20/2009
Pages: 472
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.15lbs
Size: 9.70h x 6.90w x 1.20d