Cosmological Crossroads

An Advanced Course in Mathematical, Physical and String Cosmology

Spiros Cotsakis, Eleftherios Papantonopoulos (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

XVI, 480 Seiten

2010 | 1. Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2002
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-07847-7 (ISBN)

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This book has grown out of lectures held at a summer school on cosmology, in response to an ever increasing need for an advanced textbook that addresses the needs of both postgraduate students and nonspecialist researchers from various disciplines ranging from mathematical physics to observational astrophysics. Bridging the gap between standard textbook material in cosmology and the forefront of research, this book also constitutes a modern source of reference for the experienced researcher in classical and quantum cosmology.

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.

"This book collects together a very nice set of introductions and overviews of important topics in Cosmology, covering current research and some older material, that would be difficult for many Cosmology or GR research groups to provide. Thus it would be very suitable for libraries that cannot acquire so many new publications, as well as for broadening the knowledge of graduate students and post-docs." (General Relativity and Gravitation, 35/11, 2003)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.11.2010
Reihe/Serie	Lecture Notes in Physics
Zusatzinfo	XVI, 480 p.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	748 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Hochenergiephysik / Teilchenphysik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Theoretische Physik
Schlagworte	astrophysics • Cosmology • Dark Matter • Dynamical Systems • Inflation • Mathematical Physics • Observational cosmology • Particle physics
ISBN-10	3-642-07847-8 / 3642078478
ISBN-13	978-3-642-07847-7 / 9783642078477
Zustand	Neuware