Cosmological inflation and large-scale structure

Liddle, Andrew R. (Author). Lyth, D. H. (David Hilary) (Added Author).

Summary: "This textbook provides graduate students with a thorough and up-to-date introduction to inflationary cosmology. Enormous progress has been made in this area in the past few years and this book is the first to provide a modern and unified overview. It covers all aspects of inflationary cosmology - from the origin of density perturbations during the inflationary epoch of the very early Universe, through the evolution of the perturbations up to the present for a range of possible cosmologies - and carefully compares predictions with the latest observations, including those of the cosmic microwave background, the clustering and velocities of galaxies and the epoch of structure formation.

Item details

ISBN: 052166022X (hardback)
ISBN: 9780521660228 (hardback)
ISBN: 0521575982 (paperback)
ISBN: 9780521575980 (paperback)
Physical Description: print
xiii, 400 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-391) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Introduction -- 2. The Hot Big Bang Cosmology -- 3. Inflation -- 4. Simplest Model for the Origin of Structure I -- 5. Simplest Model for the Origin or Structure II -- 6. Extensions to the Simplest Model -- 7. Scalar Fields and the Vacuum Fluctuation -- 8. Building and Testing Models of Inflation -- 9. The Cosmic Microwave Background -- 10. Galaxy Motions and Clustering -- 11. The Quasi-Linear Regime -- 12. Putting Observations Together -- 13. Outlook for the Future -- 14. Advanced Topic: Cosmological Perturbation Theory -- 15. Advanced Topic: Diffusion and Freestreaming.