Cosmological Crossroads

An Advanced Course in Mathematical, Physical and String Cosmology
1. Auflage. Softcover version of original hardcover Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-3-642-07847-7
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, Band 592, 480 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 750 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Physics

greatlytothe?neappearanceofthisbook. Karlovassi,Samos, SpirosCotsakis March2002 EleftheriosPapantonopoulos TableofContents PartI HistoryandOverview 1 IsNatureGeneric? SpirosCotsakis,PeterG. L. Leach. 3 1. 1 Introduction. 3 1. 2 PrinciplesofCosmologicalModelling. 4 1. 2. 1 Spacetimes. 4 1. 2. 2 TheoriesofGravity. 5 1. 2. 3 MatterFields. 6 1. 3 Cosmologies. 6 1. 4 CosmologicalProblems. 8 1. 4. 1 TheSingularityProblem. 8 1. 4. 2 TheProblemofCosmicTopology. 9 1. 4. 3 TheProblemofAsymptoticStates. 9 1. 4. 4 GravityTheoriesandtheEarlyUniverse. 11 1. 5Outlook. 12 References. 14 2 EvolutionofIdeasinModernCosmology AndreasParaskevopoulos. 16 2. 1 Introduction. 16 2. 2 TheBeginningsofModernCosmology(1917–1950). 17 2. 3 Cosmology1950–1970:HotBigBang, SingularitiesandQuantumApproach. 20 2. 4 Cosmology1970–1990:Chaotic,In?ationary, QuantumandAlternative. 22 2. 5ConclusionsandOutlook. 25 References. 26 VIII TableofContents PartII MathematicalCosmology 3ConstraintsandEvolutioninCosmology YvonneChoquet-Bruhat,JamesW. York. 29 3. 1 Introduction. 29 3. 2 MovingFrameFormulas. 30 3. 2. 1 FrameandCoframe. 30 3. 2. 2 Metric. 31 3. 2. 3 Connection. 31 3. 2. 4 Curvature. 32 3. 3 (n+1)-SplittingAdaptedtoSpaceSlices. 33 3. 3. 1 De?nitions. 33 3. 3. 2 StructureCoe?cients. 34 3. 3. 3 SplittingoftheConnection.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Papantonopoulos, Eleftherios

Cotsakis, Spiros

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Astrophysik
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Kosmologie, Urknalltheorie
• Naturwissenschaften Astronomie Astrophysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

History and Overview.- Is Nature Generic?.- Evolution of Ideas in Modern Cosmology.- Mathematical Cosmology.- Constraints and Evolution in Cosmology.- Cosmological Singularities.- Exact Cosmological Solutions.- to Cosmological Dynamical Systems.- Astrophysical and Observational Cosmology.- The Quest for the Cosmological Parameters.- Modern Cosmological Observations.- Cosmological Perturbations.- Dark Matter: A Particle Theorist’s Viewpoint.- Particle and String Cosmology.- An Introduction to Particle Physics.- Quantum Cosmology.- Inflationary Cosmology.- String Cosmology.- Brane Cosmology.