Gravitation, Gauge Theories and the Early Universe
Kluwer Academic Publishers (Verlag)
978-90-277-2710-7 (ISBN)
I: Gravitation and Cosmology.- 1. Introduction to General Relativity.- 2. Introduction to Black Holes.- 3. Black-Hole Thermodynamics and Hawking Radiation.- 4. Introduction to Relativistic Cosmology.- 5. Relics of the big Bang.- 6. An Approach to Anisotropic Cosmologies.- 7. Topics in Spacetime Structure.- 8. Differential Forms and Einstein-Cartan Theory.- II: Introduction to Particle Physics and Gauge Field Theories.- 9. Introduction to Classical and Quantum Lagrangian Field Theory.- 10. Introduction to Particle Physics, Symmetries and Conservation Laws.- 11. Building up the Standard Gauge Model of High-Energy Physics.- 12. Introduction to Grand Unification Theories.- 13. Topology and Homotopy.- 14. Introduction to Compact Simple Lie Groups.- III: Quantum Effects in the Early Universe and Approaches to the Unification of Fundamental Forces.- 15. Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime: Canonical Quantization.- 16. Zeta Function Regularisation and Effective Action in Curved Spacetime.- 17. Inflationary Cosmology and Quantum Effects in the Early Universe.- 18. Quantum Cosmology — The Story So Far.- 19. The Photon, the Graviton and the Gravitino.- 20. The Vierbein, Vielbeins and Spinors in Higher Dimensions.- 21. Kaluza-Klein Theories.- 22. Kaluza-Klein Cosmology.- 23. An Elementary Introduction to the Gauge Theory Approach to Gravity.- 24. Graded Lie Algebras.- 25. Supersymmetry and Supergravity.- 26. An Overview of Superstring Theory.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.4.1989 |
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Reihe/Serie | Fundamental Theories of Physics ; 29 |
Zusatzinfo | XIII, 545 p. |
Verlagsort | Dordrecht |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Relativitätstheorie | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik | |
ISBN-10 | 90-277-2710-4 / 9027727104 |
ISBN-13 | 978-90-277-2710-7 / 9789027727107 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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