宇宙学及超距作用电气动力学讲义LECTURES ON COSMOLOGY AND ACTION-AT-A-DISTANCE ELECTRODYNAMICS

This book describes the subject of electrodynamics at classical as well as quantum level, developed as an interaction at a distance. Thus it has electric charges interacting with one another directly and not through the medium of a field. In general such an interaction travels forward and backward in time symmetrically, thus apparently violating the principle of causality. It turns out, however, that in such a description the cosmological boundary conditions become very important. The theory therefore works only in a cosmology with the right boundary conditions; but when it does work it is free from the divergences that plague a quantum field theory.

作者简介：
Fred Hoyle was born inYorkshire, England. He studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge, where he eventually became Plumian Professor of Astronomy, and where he founded and was the first director of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy.
His work in research, starting in 1936, was essentially coincidental with the emergence of the problems of quantum electrodynamics as a major topic in theoretical physics.Since that time he has always maintained a strong interest in QED, as the term is now abbreviated to. The present volume covers work in this subject which he began, together with Jayant Narlikar, in the mid-1960's.

Part Ⅰ: Classical Electrodynamics
　Lecture Ⅰ: Historical Background
　Lecture Ⅱ: The Problems of Classical Field Theory
　Lecture Ⅲ: The Wheeler-Feynman Absorber Theory of Radiation
　Lecture Ⅳ: Action at a Distance in Curved Spacetime
　Lecture Ⅴ: Cosmological Models
　Lecture Ⅵ: Response of the Expanding Universe
Part Ⅱ: Quantum Electrodynamics Non-Relativistic Processes
　Lecture Ⅶ: The Path-Integral Approach to Quantum Mechanics
　Lecture Ⅷ: Perturbation Theory and the Influence Functional
　Lecture Ⅸ: Absorption and Stimulated Emission
　Lecture Ⅹ: Spontaneous Emission
　Lecture Ⅺ: The Complete Influence Functional and the Level Shift Formula
Part Ⅲ Relativistic Quantum Electrodynamics
　Lecture Ⅻ: Path Integrals for Relativistic Particles
　Lecture ⅩⅢ: Many Particle Interactions and the Quantum Response of the Universe
　Lecture ⅩⅣ: Self Action
　Lecture ⅩⅤ: Cosmological Cut-offs to Radiative Corrections
　Lecture ⅩⅥ: Concluding Remarks
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