Semiclassical and Stochastic Gravity - Quantum Field Effects on Curved Spacetime

List of contents

Preface; 1. Overview: main themes. Key issues. Reader's guide; Part I. Effective Action and Regularization, Stress Tensor and Fluctuations: 2. `In-out' effective action. Dimensional regularization; 3. `In-in' effective action. Stress tensor. Thermal fields; 4. Stress-energy tensor and correlators: zeta-function method; 5. Stress-energy tensor and correlation. Point separation; Part II. Infrared Behavior, 2Pi, 1/n Backreaction and Semiclassical Gravity: 6. Infrared behavior of interacting quantum fields; 7. Advanced field theory topics; 8. Backreaction of early universe quantum processes; Part III. Stochastic Gravity: 9. Metric correlations at one-loop: in-in and large N; 10. The Einstein-Langevin equation; 11. Metric fluctuations in Minkowski spacetime; Part IV. Cosmological and Black Hole Backreaction with Fluctuations: 12. Cosmological backreaction with fluctuations; 13. Structure formation in the early universe; 14. Black hole backreaction and fluctuations; Part V. Quantum Curvature Fluctuations in De Sitter Spacetime: 15. Stress-energy tensor fluctuations in de Sitter space; 16. Two-point metric perturbations in de Sitter; 17. Riemann tensor correlator in de Sitter; 18. Epilogue: linkage with quantum gravity; References; Index.

About the author

Bei-Lok B. Hu is Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and co-authored Nonequilibrium Quantum Field Theory (Cambridge, 2008). His research in theoretical physics focuses on gravitation and quantum theory.Enric Verdaguer is Professor of Physics at the Universitat de Barcelona. He is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society, specializes in gravitation and gravitational quantum physics, and is co-author of Gravitational Solitons (Cambridge, 2001).

Product details

• Authors: Bei-Lok B. Hu, Bei-Lok B. (University of Maryland Hu, Hu Bei-Lok B., Enric Verdaguer, Enric (Universitat de Barcelona) Verdaguer
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9780521193573
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19357-3
• No. of pages: 614
• Series: Cambridge Monographs on Mathem; Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics; Cambridge Monographs on Mathem
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