Bonometto (ed). Modern cosmology 2001 (compilation)(482s).pdf

MODERN COSMOLOGY

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MODERN COSMOLOGY

Edited by

Silvio Bonometto

Department of Physics,

University of Milan—Bicocca, Milan

Vittorio Gorini and Ugo Moschella

Department of Chemical, Mathematical and Physical Sciences,

University of Insubria at Como

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Contents

Preface

xiii

1 The physics of the early universe (an overview)

Silvio Bonometto

1.1 The physics of the early universe: an overview

1.1.1 The middle-age cosmology

1.1.2 Inationary theories

1.1.3 Links between cosmology and particle physics

1.1.4 Basic questions and tentative answers

2 An introduction to the physics of cosmology

John A Peacock

2.1 Aspects of general relativity

2.1.1 The equivalence principle

2.1.2 Applications of gravitational time dilation

2.2 The energy–momentum tensor

2.2.1 Relativistic uid mechanics

2.3 The eld equations

2.3.1 Newtonian limit

2.3.2 Pressure as a source of gravity

2.3.3 Energy density of the vacuum

2.4 The Friedmann models

2.4.1 Cosmological coordinates

2.4.2 The redshift

2.4.3 Dynamics of the expansion

2.4.4 Solutions to the Friedmann equation

2.4.5 Horizons

2.4.6 Observations in cosmology

2.4.7 The meaning of an expanding universe

2.5 Inationary cosmology

2.5.1 Ination eld dynamics

2.5.2 Ending ination

2.5.3 Relic uctuations from ination

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