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Primordial Cosmology

By Jean-Philippe Uzan , Patrick Peter

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
019920991X, 9780199209910
LCC
QB985 .P4813 2009
Open Library ID
OL24009770M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
34 MB (35395295 bytes)
Pages
851\851
Orientation
no
Scanned
yes
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00
Физика;Астрономия и астрофизика;Астрофизика;Космол

Description

This book aims at giving the basis of primordial cosmology. The book is self-contained in the sense that all the elements for the derivations of the presented results are given. It can be used as a textbook to study cosmology. It is divided into 3 parts. Part 1 summarizes the fundamentals in theoretical physics needed in cosmology (general relativity, field theory, particle physics). Part 2 describes the standard model of cosmology and includes cosmological solutions of Einstein equations, hot big bang model, cosmological perturbation theory, cosmic microwave background anisotropies, lensing and evidences for dark matter, and inflation. Part 3 describes extensions of this model and opens up to today's research in the field: scalar-tensor theories, supersymetry, the cosmological constant problem and acceleration of the universe, topology of the universe, grand unification and baryogenesis, topological defects and phase transitions, string inspired cosmology including branes and latest developments. The book provides details of all derivations and leads the student up to the level of research articles.

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