Gravitation, Gauge Theories and the Early Universe
This book evolved out of some one hundred lectures given by twenty experts at a special instructional conference sponsored by the University Grants Commis sion, India. It is pedagogical in style and self-contained in several interrelated areas of physics which have become extremely important in pre...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1989, 1989
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1989 |
| Series: | Fundamental Theories of Physics
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Table of Contents:
- 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