Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime - Suggested Reading

Suggested Reading

  • R.M. Wald. Quantum field theory in curved space-time and black hole thermodynamics. Chicago U. (1995).
  • S.A. Fulling. Aspects of quantum field theory in curved space-time. CUP (1989).
  • N.D. Birrell & P.C.W. Davies. Quantum fields in curved space. CUP (1982).
  • L. H. Ford Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime (1997).
  • V.Mukhanov and S.Winitzki. Introduction to Quantum Effects in Gravity. CUP (2007).
  • T. Jacobson Introduction to Quantum Fields in Curved Spacetime and the Hawking Effect (2004).
  • L. Parker & D. Toms. Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime. (2009).
Quantum gravity
Central concepts
  • graviton
  • Planck scale
  • trans-Planckian problem
  • quantum foam
  • AdS/CFT correspondence
  • IR/UV mixing
  • causal patch
  • gravitational anomaly
  • Weinberg–Witten theorem
Black holes
  • black hole thermodynamics
  • black hole information paradox
  • holographic principle
  • Bousso's holographic bound
  • black hole complementarity
  • gravitational singularity
Quantum field theory
in curved spacetime
  • Hawking radiation
  • Unruh radiation
  • Bunch–Davies vacuum
  • semiclassical gravity
  • Casimir effect
Proposed theories
superstring theory
  • M-theory
  • supergravity
  • string field theory
  • Green–Schwarz mechanism
  • fuzzball
  • swampland
canonical quantum gravity
  • Wheeler–DeWitt equation
  • loop quantum gravity
Euclidean quantum gravity
  • Hartle–Hawking state
superfluid vacuum theory
  • Logarithmic BEC vacuum
others
  • noncommutative geometry
  • causal dynamical triangulation
  • causal sets
  • twistor theory
  • spin foam
Toy models
  • 2+1D topological gravity
  • CGHS model
  • RST model
  • Liouville gravity
  • type 0 string theory
  • Jackiw–Teitelboim gravity
Applications
quantum cosmology
  • eternal inflation
  • multiverse
  • FRW/CFT duality
Others
  • quantum mechanics of time travel

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