28-30 September 2017
Hotel Posada San Francisco, Tlaxcala
America/Mexico_City timezone
Contribution
Hotel Posada San Francisco, Tlaxcala
An overview of quantum field theory in curved spacetimes
Speakers
- Dr. Benito A JUÁREZ AUBRY
Description
Quantum field theory in curved spacetimes (QFT in CS) has not only predicted
exciting physical phenomena, such as black hole radiation, the Unruh effect and
cosmological particle creation, but also lies at the intersection of many
mathematical subjects, and can arguably be viewed as a branch of mathematics
in its own right. In this talk, we shall give an inviting brief overview of QFT in CS.
We shall discuss how to extend the well-known quantization on Minkowski space
to general curved spacetimes and we shall overview how to define acceptable
states in the absence of spacetime isometries that can single out a preferred
vacuum. We shall also discuss applications.