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The Early Universe and Observational Cosmology

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 646)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Introduction

    • Nora Bretón, Jorge L. Cervantes–Cota, Marcelo Salgado
    Pages 1-4
  3. An Introduction to Standard Cosmology

    • Jorge L. Cervantes–Cota
    Pages 7-51
  4. Inflation – In the Early Universe and Today

    • Edmund J. Copeland
    Pages 53-107
  5. Cosmic Acceleration, Scalar Fields, and Observations

    • César A. Terrero-Escalante
    Pages 109-125
  6. Lectures on the Theory of Cosmological Perturbations

    • Robert H. Brandenberger
    Pages 127-167
  7. Quintessence and Dark Energy

    • Axel de la Macorra
    Pages 225-257
  8. Quintessential Inflation at the Maxima of the Potential

    • Gabriel Germán, Axel de la Macorra
    Pages 259-271
  9. Quantum Corrections to Scalar Quintessence Potentials

    • Michael Doran, Joerg Jaeckel
    Pages 273-291
  10. Electroweak Baryogenesis and Primordial Hypermagnetic Fields

    • Gabriella Piccinelli, Alejandro Ayala
    Pages 293-308
  11. Infering Annihilation Channels of Neutralinos in Galactic Halos

    • Luis G. Cabral–Rosetti, Xavier Hernández, Roberto A. Sussman
    Pages 309-320
  12. Brane World Cosmology

    • Kei-ichi Maeda
    Pages 323-356
  13. Inflation and Braneworlds

    • James E. Lidsey
    Pages 357-379
  14. Creation of Brane Universes

    • Rubén Cordero, Efraín Rojas
    Pages 381-399
  15. The Scalar Field Dark Matter Model: A Braneworld Connection

    • Tonatiuh Matos, Luis Arturo Ureña-López, Miguel Alcubierre, Ricardo Becerril, Francisco S. Guzmán, Darío Núñez
    Pages 401-420
  16. Cosmological Applications of Loop Quantum Gravity

    • Martin Bojowald, Hugo A. Morales-Técotl
    Pages 421-462
  17. Back Matter

About this book

Spectacular experimental advances in observational cosmology have helped raise cosmology to the status of a genuine science, and it is now possible to test many speculative theoretical issues and to obtain reliable values for the key parameters defining our observable universe. This book has emerged from selected lectures given at the Mexican School on Gravitation and Mathematical Physics by leaders in their field. Conceived as both a broad survey and as topical coverage of the latest developments, it will benefit graduate students and newcomers to this field and provide researchers in the field with a modern source of reference.

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