Lectures on Cosmology and Action at a Distance Electrodynamics

by Hoyle, Fred; Narlikar, Jayant V.

• ISBN13: 9789810225582
• ISBN10: 981022558X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-07-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Table of Contents

Preface	v
Part I: Classical Electrodynamics	3	(50)
Lecture I: Historical Background	3	(10)
Lecture II: The Problems of Classical Field Theory	13	(7)
Lecture III: The Wheeler--Feynman Absorber Theory of Radiation	20	(9)
Lecture IV: Action at a Distance in Curved Spacetime	29	(7)
Lecture V: Cosmological Models	36	(6)
Lecture VI: Response of the Expanding Universe	42	(11)
Part II: Quantum Electrodynamics Non-Relativistic Processes	53	(46)
Lecture VII: The Path--Integral Approach to Quantum Mechanics	53	(7)
Lecture VIII: Perturbation Theory and the Influence Functional	60	(6)
Lecture IX: Absorption and Stimulated Emission	66	(8)
Lecture X: Spontaneous Emission	74	(10)
Lecture XI: The Complete Influence Functional and the Level Shift Formula	84	(15)
Part III: Relativistic Quantum Electrodynamics	99	(38)
Lecture XII: Path Integrals for Relativistic Particles	99	(13)
Lecture XIII: Many Particles Interactions and the Quantum Response of the Universe	112	(8)
Lecture XIV: Self Action	120	(5)
Lecture XV: Cosmological Cut--offs to Radiative Corrections	125	(6)
Lecture XVI: Concluding Remarks	131	(6)
References	137