ART II -- Gravity and Fields (SS15)
Lecturers
J.Prof.Dr. Harald Ita
Priv.Doz.Dr. Christian Schwinn
Dates
- Lecture: 4 hours, time Mo 8-10, Tue 10-12, place: SRIII, start: 20.04.2014 (Lecturer Harald Ita & Christian Schwinn)
- Tutorial: 2 hours, time Mo 12-14, place: SRIII, start: 27.04.2014.
- Exam: Mo 20.7.2015, 10-12, place SRIII
Problem Sets for Tutorial
- exercise 1
- exercise 2
- exercise 3
- exercise 4
- exercise 5
- exercise 6
- exercise 7
- exercise 8
- exercise 9
- exercise 10 (6.7.)
- exercise 11 (13.7.)
Content
- Gravitational waves
- Field theory approach to gravity
- Black Holes
- Quantization of free fields in curved space
- Optional: towards quantization of gravity
For Bachelor-Students
The lecture is suitable as supplementary or elective course; Wahlpflicht- bzw. Wahlbereich.
For Masters-Students
The lecture is suitable as Advanced Theory course in the Elective Subjects.
Required Prior Knowledge
Special Relativity, foundations of General Relativity, Electrodynamics, Quantum Mechanics.
Requirements for Academic Record
- active and regular participation in the tutorials (including the presentation of homework problems) and written exam.
- in case an exam ( "Prüfungsleistung") is required, a written/oral exam will be offered. Prerequisite is the successful participation in the tutorials.
Further details will be given in the lecture/tutorials.
Textbooks
- Physics of Black Holes (Lecture Notes in Physics 769, Ed. E. Papantonopoulos)
- A First Course in General Relativity, Bernard Schutz
- General relativity lecture notes of Blau and Marolf
- Jacobs: lectures on black hole thermodynamics
- Traschen: black hole radiation
- Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model, Matthew D. Schwartz,
More advanced:
- Michele Maggiore, Gravitational Waves (Vol. 1)
- Feynman, Lectures on Gravitation
- Baumann: TASI lectures on inflation
- Polchinski: "String Theory I" and "String Theory II"