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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151936703321

Autore

Bär Christian

Titolo

Wave Equations on Lorentzian Manifolds and Quantization [[electronic resource] /] / Christian Bär, Nicolas Ginoux, Frank Pfäffle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Zuerich, Switzerland, : European Mathematical Society Publishing House, 2007

ISBN

3-03719-537-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 pages)

Collana

ESI Lectures in Mathematics and Physics (ESI)

Classificazione

58-xx35-xx53-xx

Soggetti

Differential & Riemannian geometry

Differential equations

Global analysis, analysis on manifolds

Partial differential equations

Differential geometry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a detailed introduction to linear wave equations  on Lorentzian manifolds (for vector-bundle valued fields). After a  collection of preliminary material in the first chapter one finds in the second  chapter the construction of local fundamental solutions together with their  Hadamard expansion. The third chapter establishes the existence and uniqueness  of global fundamental solutions on globally hyperbolic spacetimes and discusses  Green's operators and well-posedness of the Cauchy problem. The last chapter is  devoted to field quantization in the sense of algebraic quantum field theory.  The necessary basics on C*-algebras and CCR-representations are developed  in full detail.            The text provides a self-contained introduction to these topics  addressed to graduate students in mathematics and physics.  At the  same time it is intended as a reference for researchers in global  analysis, general relativity, and quantum field theory.