Inflationary Cosmology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lemoine, Martin (Editor), Martin, Jerome (Editor), Peter, Patrick (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 738
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Gravitation.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.

Some 25 years after the birth of inflationary cosmology this volume sets out to provide a both authoritative and pedagogical introduction and review of the state of the field. Cosmic inflation corresponds to an episode of accelerated expansion of the very early universe and solves nicely a collectio...

Table of Contents:

• Inflationary Cosmology
• Preheating After Inflation
• Particle Physics Models of Inflation
• Inflation in String Theory
• Predictions in Eternal Inflation
• Inflationary Perturbations: The Cosmological Schwinger Effect
• The Numerical Treatment of Inflationary Models
• Multiple Field Inflation
• The Quest for Non-gaussianity
• Production of Topological Defects at the End of Inflation
• Conceptual Problems of Inflationary Cosmology and a New Approach to Cosmological Structure Formation.