Effects of non-locality in gravity and quantum theory / Jens Boos.
Boos, Jens, author.
2021
QC20.6 .B66 2021
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Title Effects of non-locality in gravity and quantum theory / Jens Boos.
Author Boos, Jens, author.
ISBN 9783030829100 (electronic bk.)
3030829103 (electronic bk.)
9783030829094
303082909X
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82910-0
Published Cham : Springer, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-82910-0 doi
Call Number QC20.6 .B66 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 530.15
Summary This thesis is devoted to the systematic study of non-local theories that respect Lorentz invariance and are devoid of new, unphysical degrees of freedom. Such theories are attractive for phenomenological applications since they are mostly unconstrained by current experiments. Non-locality has played an increasingly important role in the physics of the last decades, appearing in effective actions in quantum field theory, and arising naturally in string theory and non-commutative geometry. It may even be a necessary ingredient for quantum theories of gravity. It is a feature of quantum entanglement, and may even solve the long-standing black hole information loss problem. "Non-locality" is a broad concept with many promising and fruitful applications in theoretical and mathematical physics. After a historical and pedagogical introduction into the concept of non-locality the author develops the notion of non-local Green functions to study various non-local weak-field problems in quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, gravity, and quantum field theory in curved spacetime. This thesis fills a gap in the literature by providing a self-contained exploration of weak-field effects in non-local theories, thereby establishing a "non-local intuition" which may serve as a stepping stone for studies of the full, non-linear problem of non-locality
Note "Doctoral thesis accepted by the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada."
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Series Springer theses. 2190-5061
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Chapter1: Introduction
Chapter2: Green functions in non-local theories
Chapter3: Static and stationary solutions in weak-field gravity
Chapter4: Ultrarelativistic objects
Chapter5: Quantum-mechanical scattering
Chapter6: Vacuum polarization and the fluctuation-dissipation theorem
Chapter7: Black holes, generalized Polyakov action, and Hawking radiation
Chapter8: Conclusions.

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