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Suitable for graduate students, this book presents detailed derivations of cosmological and black hole processes in which curved spacetime plays a key role. It explains how such processes in the early universe leave observable consequences today, and how these processes uncover deep connections between gravitation and elementary particles.

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"While readers of Birrel and Davies will certainly like this new book, newcomers and students will appreciate the breadth and the style of a treatise written by two well known scientists who have dedicated their lives to the understanding of the treatment of quantum fields in a fixed gravitational background." Massimo Giovannini, CERN Courier
"This is an interesting book which contains a lot of material about an important topic of theoretical physics." Michael Keyl, Mathematical Reviews

Table of Contents
Preface; Conventions and notation; 1. Quantum fields in Minkowski spacetime; 2. Basics of quantum fields in curved spacetimes; 3. Expectation values quadratic in fields; 4. Particle creation by black holes; 5. The one-loop effective action; 6. The effective action: non-gauge theories; 7. The effective action: gauge theories; Appendixes; References; Index.

Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime Quantized Fields and Gravity Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 8/20/2009 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780521877879, 978-0521877879
      ISBN10: 0521877873
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Suitable for graduate students, this book presents detailed derivations of cosmological and black hole processes in which curved spacetime plays a key role. It explains how such processes in the early universe leave observable consequences today, and how these processes uncover deep connections between gravitation and elementary particles.

      Trade Review
      "While readers of Birrel and Davies will certainly like this new book, newcomers and students will appreciate the breadth and the style of a treatise written by two well known scientists who have dedicated their lives to the understanding of the treatment of quantum fields in a fixed gravitational background." Massimo Giovannini, CERN Courier
      "This is an interesting book which contains a lot of material about an important topic of theoretical physics." Michael Keyl, Mathematical Reviews

      Table of Contents
      Preface; Conventions and notation; 1. Quantum fields in Minkowski spacetime; 2. Basics of quantum fields in curved spacetimes; 3. Expectation values quadratic in fields; 4. Particle creation by black holes; 5. The one-loop effective action; 6. The effective action: non-gauge theories; 7. The effective action: gauge theories; Appendixes; References; Index.

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