The Early Universe and Observational Cosmology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bretón, Nora (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Cervantes-Cota, Jorge L. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Salgado, Marcelo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2004.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 646
• Subjects: Cosmology.; Astrophysics.; Gravitation.; Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Astrophysics and Astroparticles.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.

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...

Table of Contents:

• An Introduction to Standard Cosmology
• Inflation- In the Early Universe and Today
• Cosmic Acceleration, Scalar Fields and Observations
• Lectures on the Theory of Cosmological Perturbation
• Measuring Spacetime: From Big Bang to Black Holes
• The Accelerating Universe and Dark Energy: Evidence From Type Ia Supernovae
• Quintessence and Dark Energy
• Qunintessential Inflation at the Maxima of the Potential
• Quantum Corrections to Scalar Quintessence Potentials
• Electroweak Baryogenesis and Primordial Hypermagnetic Fields
• Infering Annihilation Channels of Neutralinos in Galactic Halos
• Brane World Cosmology
• Inflation and Braneworlds
• Creation of Brane Universes
• The Scalar Field Dark Matter Model: A Braneworld Connection
• Cosmological Applications of Loop Quantum Gravity.