Cosmological Crossroads

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XVI

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2. History and Overview

   1. Is Nature Generic?

      • Spiros Cotsakis, Peter G. L. Leach

      Pages 3-15

   2. Evolution of Ideas in Modern Cosmology

      • Andreas Paraskevopoulos

      Pages 16-26

3. Mathematical Cosmology

   1. Constraints and Evolution in Cosmology

      • Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, James W. York

      Pages 29-58

   2. Cosmological Singularities

      • Spiros Cotsakis

      Pages 59-94

   3. Exact Cosmological Solutions

      • Sotirios Bonanos

      Pages 95-110

   4. Introduction to Cosmological Dynamical Systems

      • John Miritzis

      Pages 111-143

4. Astrophysical and Observational Cosmology

   1. The Quest for the Cosmological Parameters

      • Manolis Plionis

      Pages 147-207

   2. Modern Cosmological Observations

      • Ioannis Georgantopoulos

      Pages 208-222

   3. Cosmological Perturbations

      • Christos G. Tsagas

      Pages 223-261

   4. Dark Matter: A Particle Theorist’s Viewpoint

      • Athanasios B. Lahanas

      Pages 262-284

5. Particle and String Cosmology

   1. An Introduction to Particle Physics

      • Kyriakos Tamvakis

      Pages 287-317

   2. Quantum Cosmology

      • Theodosios Christodoulakis

      Pages 318-350

   3. Inflationary Cosmology

      • George Lazarides

      Pages 351-391

   4. String Cosmology

      • Nick E. Mavromatos

      Pages 392-457

   5. Brane Cosmology

      • Eleftherios Papantonopoulos

      Pages 458-477

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.

• Dark matter
• Inflation
• astrophysics
• cosmology
• dynamical systems
• mathematical physics
• observational cosmology
• particle physics

"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)

• Department of Mathematics, University of the Aegean, Samos, Greece

  Spiros Cotsakis

• Physics Department, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

  Eleftherios Papantonopoulos

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