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  title info:
    title: Classical and Quantum Cosmology
  name:
    name part: Calcagni, Gianluca.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 843 p. 80 illus., 52 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This comprehensive textbook is devoted to classical and quantum cosmology, with particular emphasis on modern approaches to quantum gravity and string theory and on their observational imprint. It covers major challenges in theoretical physics such as the big bang and the cosmological constant problem. An extensive review of standard cosmology, the cosmic microwave background, inflation and dark energy sets the scene for the phenomenological application of all the main quantum-gravity and string-theory models of cosmology. Born of the author's teaching experience and commitment to bridging the gap between cosmologists and theoreticians working beyond the established laws of particle physics and general relativity, this is a unique text where quantum-gravity approaches and string theory are treated on an equal footing. As well as introducing cosmology to undergraduate and graduate students with its pedagogical presentation and the help of 45 solved exercises, this book, which includes an ambitious bibliography of about 3500 items, will serve as a valuable reference for lecturers and researchers.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Hot big bang model -- Cosmological perturbations -- Cosmic microwave background -- Inflation -- Big bang problem -- Cosmological constant problem -- The problem of quantum gravity -- Canonical quantum gravity -- Canonical quantum cosmology -- Cosmology of quantum gravities -- String theory -- String cosmology -- Perspective.
  note: by Gianluca Calcagni.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical physics
  subject:
    topic: Gravitation
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical Physics
  classification: QC178
  classification: QC173.5-173.65
  classification: 530.1
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Graduate Texts in Physics
  identifier: 9783319411279
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41127-9
  record info:
    record creation date: 170106
    record change date: 20170106072312.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-41127-9