Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 A quick course in quantum mechanics
- 2 Self-adjoint, elliptic differential operators and eigenfunction expansions
- 3 Quantization of a static, scalar field theory
- 4 Two-point functions
- 5 The stress tensor and the Casimir effect
- 6 Quantum field theory in general space-times
- 7 Quantum field theory in an expanding universe
- 8 Some geometrical apparatus
- 9 Renormalization of the stress tensor
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Varieties of Instability of a Boson Field in an External Potential and Black Hole Klein Paradoxes
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Two-point functions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 A quick course in quantum mechanics
- 2 Self-adjoint, elliptic differential operators and eigenfunction expansions
- 3 Quantization of a static, scalar field theory
- 4 Two-point functions
- 5 The stress tensor and the Casimir effect
- 6 Quantum field theory in general space-times
- 7 Quantum field theory in an expanding universe
- 8 Some geometrical apparatus
- 9 Renormalization of the stress tensor
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Varieties of Instability of a Boson Field in an External Potential and Black Hole Klein Paradoxes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime , pp. 74 - 91Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989