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The section on global structure, spinors and classical field theory on curved space-time follows the following texts:
Gibbons/Hawking/Townsend, Black Holes lecture notes, arxiv:9707012.
Hawking & Ellis, The large scale structure of Space-time, 1971 CUP.
Penrose & Rindler, Spinors & Space-time, Vols 1 & 2, CUP, 1984 & 1986.

Birrell & Davis, Quantum field theory in curved space-time, CUP.
Ford, Quantum Field theory in Curved space-time, arxiv:9707062.
Jacobson, Introduction to quantum fields in curved space-time and the
Hawking effect, arxiv:0308048.
Mukhanov and Winitzki, Introduction to quantum fields on classical backgrounds.
R Wald, QFT in Curved Space-time and Black Hole Thermodynamics, Univ Chicago Press, 1994, ISBN 0226-87027-8.