Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- Appendix: Quantized Inflaton Perturbations
- References
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 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
- Appendix: Quantized Inflaton Perturbations
- References
- Index
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- Quantum Field Theory in Curved SpacetimeQuantized Fields and Gravity, pp. vii - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009