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Quantum Fields in Curved Space
N. D. Birrell,Paul Davies +1 more
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A comprehensive review of the subject of gravitational effects in quantum field theory can be found in this paper, where special emphasis is given to the Hawking black hole evaporation effect, and to particle creation processes in the early universe.Abstract:
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.read more
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Fermions as sources of accelerated regimes in cosmology
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Recursion Relations for AdS/CFT Correlators
TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived recursion relations for correlation functions of the stress-tensor and conserved currents in conformal field theories with an anti-de Sitter space (AdS) dual to boundary correlators, which correspond to correlators calculated between states dual to certain normalizable modes.
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One-loop corrections to a scalar field during inflation
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Black hole horizons and complementarity
TL;DR: It is argued that the effect of gravitational back-reaction on the black hole evaporation process supports the idea of black hole complementarity, which states that, in the description of the black Hole system appropriate to outside observers, the region behind the horizon does not establish itself as a classical region of space-time.
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The Hawking-Unruh phenomenon on graphene
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