Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I Canonical quantization and particle production
- Part II Path integrals and vacuum polarization
- 11 Path integrals
- 12 Effective action
- 13 Calculation of heat kernel
- 14 Results from effective action
- Appendix 1 Mathematical supplement
- Appendix 2 Backreaction derived from effective action
- Appendix 3 Mode expansions cheat sheet
- Appendix 4 Solutions to exercises
- Index
11 - Path integrals
from Part II - Path integrals and vacuum polarization
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Part I Canonical quantization and particle production
- Part II Path integrals and vacuum polarization
- 11 Path integrals
- 12 Effective action
- 13 Calculation of heat kernel
- 14 Results from effective action
- Appendix 1 Mathematical supplement
- Appendix 2 Backreaction derived from effective action
- Appendix 3 Mode expansions cheat sheet
- Appendix 4 Solutions to exercises
- Index
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- Introduction to Quantum Effects in Gravity , pp. 131 - 145Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007