Flat and Curved Space-times - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flat and Curved Space-times write by George Francis Rayner Ellis. This book was released on 2000. Flat and Curved Space-times available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text explains special relativity and the basics of general relativity from a geometric viewpoint. Space-time geometry is emphasised throughout, and up-to-date information is provided on black holes, gravitational collapse, and cosmology.
Quantum Fields in Curved Space
Quantum Fields in Curved Space - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Quantum Fields in Curved Space write by N. D. Birrell. This book was released on 1984-02-23. Quantum Fields in Curved Space available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents a comprehensive review of the subject of gravitational effects in quantum field theory. Although the treatment is general, special emphasis is given to the Hawking black hole evaporation effect, and to particle creation processes in the early universe. The last decade has witnessed a phenomenal growth in this subject. This is the first attempt to collect and unify the vast literature that has contributed to this development. All the major technical results are presented, and the theory is developed carefully from first principles. Here is everything that students or researchers will need to embark upon calculations involving quantum effects of gravity at the so-called one-loop approximation level.
Spacetime and Geometry
Spacetime and Geometry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spacetime and Geometry write by Sean M. Carroll. This book was released on 2019-08-08. Spacetime and Geometry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An accessible introductory textbook on general relativity, covering the theory's foundations, mathematical formalism and major applications.
Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime
Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime write by Stephen A. Fulling. This book was released on 1989-08-24. Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The theory of quantum fields on curved spacetimes has attracted great attention since the discovery, by Stephen Hawking, of black-hole evaporation. It remains an important subject for the understanding of such contemporary topics as inflationary cosmology, quantum gravity and superstring theory. This book provides, for mathematicians, an introduction to this field of physics in a language and from a viewpoint which such a reader should find congenial. Physicists should also gain from reading this book a sound grasp of various aspects of the theory, some of which have not been particularly emphasised in the existing review literature. The topics covered include normal-mode expansions for a general elliptic operator, Fock space, the Casimir effect, the 'Klein' paradox, particle definition and particle creation in expanding universes, asymptotic expansion of Green's functions and heat kernels, and renormalisation of the stress tensor. The style is pedagogic rather than formal; some knowledge of general relativity and differential geometry is assumed, but the author does supply background material on functional analysis and quantum field theory as required. The book arose from a course taught to graduate students and could be used for self-study or for advanced courses in relativity and quantum field theory.
Space, Time, and Gravity
Space, Time, and Gravity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Space, Time, and Gravity write by Robert M. Wald. This book was released on 1992-05. Space, Time, and Gravity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Writing for the general reader or student, Wald has completely revised and updated this highly regarded work to include recent developments in black hole physics and cosmology. Nature called the first edition "a very readable and accurate account of modern relativity physics for the layman within the unavoidable constraint of almost no mathematics. . . . A well written, entertaining and authoritative book."
