Cosmology, Quantum Vacuum and Zeta Functions
Subtitle: In Honor of Emilio Elizalde
By: edited by Sergey D. Odintsov, Diego Sáez-Gómez, Sebastian Xambó-Descamps
Contributors: Sáez-Gómez, Diego; Xambó Descamps, Sebastián; SpringerLink (Online service)
Series: Springer Proceedings in Physics -- 137
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg; Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9783642197598; 9783642197604
Subjects: Mathematical physics; Physics
Description: Some major developments of physics in the last three decades are addressed by highly qualified specialists in different specific fields. They include renormalization problems in QFT, vacuum energy fluctuations and the Casimir effect in different configurations, and a wealth of applications. A number of closely related issues are also considered. The cosmological applications of these theories play a crucial role and are at the very heart of the book; in particular, the possibility to explain in a unified way the whole history of the evolution of the Universe: from primordial inflation to the present day accelerated expansion. Further, a description of the mathematical background underlying many of the physical theories considered above is provided. This includes the uses of zeta functions in physics, as in the regularization problems in QFT already mentioned, specifically in curved space-time, and in Casimir problems as.