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Cosmological Crossroads: An Advanced Course in Mathematical, Physical and String Cosmology (Lecture Notes in Physics), Dieter Heiss, 9783540437789

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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 Cosmology19 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.

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