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Extensively classroom-tested, A Course in Field Theory provides material for an introductory course for advanced undergraduateand graduate students in physics. Based on the author’s course that he has been teaching for more than 20 years, the text presents complete and detailed coverage of the core ideas and theories in quantum field theory. It is ideal for particle physics courses as well as a supplementary text for courses on the Standard Model and applied quantum physics.

Field theory (Physics) --- Classical field theory --- Continuum physics --- Physics --- Continuum mechanics --- Cross Sections --- Path Integrals For Fermions --- Quantisation Of Fields --- The Higgs Mechanism --- The Scattering Matrix

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The multiverse is a concept that acknowledges the existence of a multiplicity of worlds or universes. The designs of these universes do not have to be the same as our universe, but we have no clear view of what the “other” designs might be. It is suspected that they can obey different laws of physics and different constants of physics, which further implies different chemistry, biology, and life. Some say that the universes within the multiverse allow for different mathematics or even for different metamathematical logic. This book discusses most of the above aspects of the multiverse concept starting with the philosophy, through all the mathematical and physical subtleties, finally exploring the origin of life and consciousness. This book provides a satisfying intellectual exploration of front-edge advances in contemporary cosmology.

Research & information: general --- Astronomy, space & time --- multiverse --- Leibniz --- other worlds --- multiverse levels --- habitability --- stars --- quantum cosmology --- origin of the universe --- time reversal symmetry --- planets --- life --- varying constants --- anthropic principle --- multiverse entanglement --- multiverse tests --- mass extinctions --- string theory --- string landscape --- dark energy --- creation from nothing --- soft entry --- quantum gravity --- Wheeler-de Witt-equation --- Bohm-like interpretation --- volume-quantisation --- space atoms --- information storage and transfer --- philosophy of multiverse --- categories of multiverses --- different physics universes --- superstring multiverse --- dark multiverse --- universe-antiuniverse pair creation --- multiverse habitability: stars, planets, life, consciousness --- falsifiability of multiverses

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Within the second half of the last century, quantum cosmology concretely became one of the main research lines within gravitational theory and cosmology. Substantial progress has been made. Furthermore, quantum cosmology can become a domain that will gradually develop further over the next handful of decades, perhaps assisted by technological developments. Indications for new physics (i.e., beyond the standard model of particle physics or general relativity) could emerge and then the observable universe would surely be seen from quite a new perspective. This motivates bringing quantum cosmology to more research groups and individuals.This Special Issue (SI) aims to provide a wide set of reviews, ranging from foundational issues to (very) recent advancing discussions. Concretely, we want to inspire new work proposing observational tests, providing an aggregated set of contributions, covering several lines, some of which are thoroughly explored, some allowing progress, and others much unexplored. The aim of this SI is motivate new researchers to employ and further develop quantum cosmology over the forthcoming decades. Textbooks and reviews exist on the present subject, and this SI will complementarily assist in offering open access to a set of wide-ranging reviews. Hopefully, this will assist new interested researchers, in having a single open access online volume, with reviews that can help. In particular, this will help in selecting what to explore, what to read in more detail, where to proceed, and what to investigate further within quantum cosmology.

Research & information: general --- Physics --- string cosmology --- quantum cosmology --- Wheeler-DeWitt equation --- loop quantum cosmology --- observations --- classical and quantum cosmology --- time --- quantum fields in curved spacetime --- Brans-Dicke theory --- bounce models --- de Broglie-Bohm interpretation --- quantum geometrodynamics --- extended theories of gravity --- dark energy singularities --- quantum gravity --- Hawking radiation --- entanglement entropy --- uniqueness of the quantization --- polymer quantum mechanics --- bounce --- no-boundary proposal --- instantons --- multiverse --- superspace --- third quantisation --- universe-antiuniverse pair --- weyl curvature hypothesis --- early universe cosmology --- singularity and bounce --- cyclic universe --- quantum fields --- backreaction effects --- supersymmetry --- noncommutativity --- generalized uncertainty principles --- canonical quantum gravity --- clocks --- noether symmetries --- ADM formalism --- exact solutions --- supersymmetric quantum mechanics --- shape invariant potentials --- supersymmetric quantum cosmology --- string cosmology --- quantum cosmology --- Wheeler-DeWitt equation --- loop quantum cosmology --- observations --- classical and quantum cosmology --- time --- quantum fields in curved spacetime --- Brans-Dicke theory --- bounce models --- de Broglie-Bohm interpretation --- quantum geometrodynamics --- extended theories of gravity --- dark energy singularities --- quantum gravity --- Hawking radiation --- entanglement entropy --- uniqueness of the quantization --- polymer quantum mechanics --- bounce --- no-boundary proposal --- instantons --- multiverse --- superspace --- third quantisation --- universe-antiuniverse pair --- weyl curvature hypothesis --- early universe cosmology --- singularity and bounce --- cyclic universe --- quantum fields --- backreaction effects --- supersymmetry --- noncommutativity --- generalized uncertainty principles --- canonical quantum gravity --- clocks --- noether symmetries --- ADM formalism --- exact solutions --- supersymmetric quantum mechanics --- shape invariant potentials --- supersymmetric quantum cosmology

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The latest proliferation of Internet of Things deployments and edge computing combined with artificial intelligence has led to new exciting application scenarios, where embedded digital devices are essential enablers. Moreover, new powerful and efficient devices are appearing to cope with workloads formerly reserved for the cloud, such as deep learning. These devices allow processing close to where data are generated, avoiding bottlenecks due to communication limitations. The efficient integration of hardware, software and artificial intelligence capabilities deployed in real sensing contexts empowers the edge intelligence paradigm, which will ultimately contribute to the fostering of the offloading processing functionalities to the edge. In this Special Issue, researchers have contributed nine peer-reviewed papers covering a wide range of topics in the area of edge intelligence. Among them are hardware-accelerated implementations of deep neural networks, IoT platforms for extreme edge computing, neuro-evolvable and neuromorphic machine learning, and embedded recommender systems.

Information technology industries --- high-level synthesis --- HLS --- SDSoC --- support vector machines --- SVM --- code refactoring --- Zynq --- ZedBoard --- extreme edge --- embedded edge computing --- internet of things deployment --- hardware design --- IoT security --- Contiki-NG --- trustability --- embedded systems --- collaborative filtering --- recommender systems --- parallelism --- reconfigurable hardware --- neuroevolution --- block-based neural network --- dynamic and partial reconfiguration --- scalability --- reinforcement learning --- embedded system --- artificial intelligence --- hardware acceleration --- neuromorphic processor --- power consumption --- harsh environment --- fog computing --- edge computing --- cloud computing --- IoT gateway --- LoRa --- WiFi --- low power consumption --- low latency --- flexible --- smart port --- quantisation --- evolutionary algorithm --- neural network --- FPGA --- Movidius VPU --- 2D graphics accelerator --- line-drawing --- Bresenham’s algorithm --- alpha-blending --- anti-aliasing --- field-programmable gate array --- deep learning --- performance estimation --- Gaussian process --- high-level synthesis --- HLS --- SDSoC --- support vector machines --- SVM --- code refactoring --- Zynq --- ZedBoard --- extreme edge --- embedded edge computing --- internet of things deployment --- hardware design --- IoT security --- Contiki-NG --- trustability --- embedded systems --- collaborative filtering --- recommender systems --- parallelism --- reconfigurable hardware --- neuroevolution --- block-based neural network --- dynamic and partial reconfiguration --- scalability --- reinforcement learning --- embedded system --- artificial intelligence --- hardware acceleration --- neuromorphic processor --- power consumption --- harsh environment --- fog computing --- edge computing --- cloud computing --- IoT gateway --- LoRa --- WiFi --- low power consumption --- low latency --- flexible --- smart port --- quantisation --- evolutionary algorithm --- neural network --- FPGA --- Movidius VPU --- 2D graphics accelerator --- line-drawing --- Bresenham’s algorithm --- alpha-blending --- anti-aliasing --- field-programmable gate array --- deep learning --- performance estimation --- Gaussian process

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Within the second half of the last century, quantum cosmology concretely became one of the main research lines within gravitational theory and cosmology. Substantial progress has been made. Furthermore, quantum cosmology can become a domain that will gradually develop further over the next handful of decades, perhaps assisted by technological developments. Indications for new physics (i.e., beyond the standard model of particle physics or general relativity) could emerge and then the observable universe would surely be seen from quite a new perspective. This motivates bringing quantum cosmology to more research groups and individuals.This Special Issue (SI) aims to provide a wide set of reviews, ranging from foundational issues to (very) recent advancing discussions. Concretely, we want to inspire new work proposing observational tests, providing an aggregated set of contributions, covering several lines, some of which are thoroughly explored, some allowing progress, and others much unexplored. The aim of this SI is motivate new researchers to employ and further develop quantum cosmology over the forthcoming decades. Textbooks and reviews exist on the present subject, and this SI will complementarily assist in offering open access to a set of wide-ranging reviews. Hopefully, this will assist new interested researchers, in having a single open access online volume, with reviews that can help. In particular, this will help in selecting what to explore, what to read in more detail, where to proceed, and what to investigate further within quantum cosmology.

string cosmology --- quantum cosmology --- Wheeler-DeWitt equation --- loop quantum cosmology --- observations --- classical and quantum cosmology --- time --- quantum fields in curved spacetime --- Brans–Dicke theory --- bounce models --- de Broglie–Bohm interpretation --- quantum geometrodynamics --- extended theories of gravity --- dark energy singularities --- quantum gravity --- Hawking radiation --- entanglement entropy --- uniqueness of the quantization --- polymer quantum mechanics --- bounce --- no-boundary proposal --- instantons --- multiverse --- superspace --- third quantisation --- universe–antiuniverse pair --- weyl curvature hypothesis --- early universe cosmology --- singularity and bounce --- cyclic universe --- quantum fields --- backreaction effects --- supersymmetry --- noncommutativity --- generalized uncertainty principles --- canonical quantum gravity --- clocks --- noether symmetries --- ADM formalism --- exact solutions --- supersymmetric quantum mechanics --- shape invariant potentials --- supersymmetric quantum cosmology --- n/a --- Brans-Dicke theory --- de Broglie-Bohm interpretation --- universe-antiuniverse pair