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Microlocal analysis of quantum fields on curved spacetimes /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gérard, Christian, 1960- (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : European Mathematical Society, [2019]
Series:ESI lectures in mathematics and physics.
Subjects:
Quantum field theory.
Microlocal analysis.
Quantum theory.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Free Klein-Gordon fields on Minkowski spacetime
  • Fock quantization on Minkowski space
  • CCR algebras and quasi-free states
  • Free Klein-Gordon fields on curved spacetimes
  • Quasi-free states on curved spacetimes
  • Microlocal analysis of Klein–Gordon equations
  • Hadamard states
  • Vacuum and thermal states on stationary spacetimes
  • Pseudodifferential calculus on manifolds
  • Construction of Hadamard states by pseudodifferential calculus
  • Analytic Hadamard states and Wick rotation
  • Hadamard states and characteristic Cauchy problem
  • Klein–Gordon fields on spacetimes with Killing horizons
  • Hadamard states and scattering theory
  • Dirac fields on curved spacetimes.