Cosmological Crossroads - An Advanced Course in Mathematical, Physical and String Cosmology

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.

List of contents

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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"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)

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"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)

Product details

• Assisted by: S. Cotsakis (Editor), Spiro Cotsakis (Editor), Spiros Cotsakis (Editor), Papantonopoulos (Editor), Papantonopoulos (Editor), Eleftherios Papantonopoulos (Editor), L. Papantonopoulos (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.11.2002
• EAN: 9783540437789
• ISBN: 978-3-540-43778-9
• No. of pages: 480
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 244 mm x 34 mm
• Weight: 850 g
• Illustrations: XVI, 480 p.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics; Lecture Notes in Physics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics; Gravitation, C, Physics, String Theory, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Physics and Astronomy, Quantum field theory, Relativity physics, Mathematical physics, Mathematical Methods in Physics, Classical and Quantum Gravity, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Statistical physics, Quantum Field Theories, String Theory