Andrew R. Liddle, David H. Lyth

Cosmological Inflation and Large-Scale Structure

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A thorough and up-to-date graduate textbook on the most promising theory of the universe - inflationary cosmology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 715g
• ISBN-13: 9780521575980
• ISBN-10: 0521575982
• Artikelnr.: 22266354

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The hot Big Bang cosmology
3. Inflation
4. The simplest model for the origin of structure I
5. The simplest model for the origin of structure II
6. Extensions to the smplest model
7. Scalar fields and the vacuum fluctuation
8. Building and testing models of inflation
9. The cosmic microwave background
10. Galaxy motions and clustering
11. The Quasi-Linear regime
12. Putting observations together
13. Outlook for the future
14. Advanced topic: cosmological Perturbation theory
15. Advanced topic: diffusion and free streaming
Index.