Inflationary cosmology / L.F. Abbott and So-Young Pi
Digitised Book 216.73.216.10 (0)
1986
Information About
This book reviews inflationary cosmology. Its introduction outlines the major issues considered in subsequent papers and explain how these issues fit into the general framework of inflationary cosmology. It concludes with a brief survey of Friedmann-Robertson- Walker cosmologies and a short discussion of the present state of the universe.
Additional Details
- Title
- Inflationary cosmology / L.F. Abbott and So-Young Pi
- Creators
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- Abbott, L. F.
- Subject
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- Cosmology
- Astrophysics
- Publisher
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- World Scientific, 1986
- National Library Board Singapore, 1986
- Contributors
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- Pi, So Young
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, xi, 697 p. ill.
- Table of Contents
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- Introduction -- ch. 1. Inflation. A. Guth, "Inflationary universe: a possible solution to the horizon and flatness problems," Phys. Rev. D23 (1981)347-356. A. Starobinsky, "A new type of isotropic cosmological models without singularity," Phys. Lett. 91B (1980) 99-102... -- ch. 2. Is omega=1? -- ch. 3. Dark matter -- ch. 4. Density fluctuations -- ch. 5. Galaxy formation and clustering -- ch. 6. The microwave background -- ch. 7. Baryon generation -- ch. 8. Inflationary models -- ch. 9. Magnetic monopoles -- Appendix: Field theory background.
- Copyright
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- All Rights Reserved. National Library Board Singapore 2009.