Andrei Linde (auth.), Martin Lemoine, Jerome Martin, Patrick Peter (eds.)3540743529, 9783540743521
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 collection of puzzles that had plagued standard cosmology so far. Different scenarios exist, though, and the reader will learn about the “ins” and “outs” as the subject and related issues are surveyed. With lectures written by eminent scientists in the field, many of them having made pioneering contributrions in the early hours of the field, Inflationary Cosmology addresses both senior and younger high-energy physicists, cosmologists and observational astrophysicists seeking both a readable account and reference in the field.
Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages I-X
Inflationary Cosmology….Pages 1-54
Preheating After Inflation….Pages 55-79
Particle Physics Models of Inflation….Pages 81-118
Inflation in String Theory….Pages 119-156
Predictions in Eternal Inflation….Pages 157-191
Inflationary Perturbations: The Cosmological Schwinger Effect….Pages 193-241
The Numerical Treatment of Inflationary Models….Pages 243-273
Multiple Field Inflation….Pages 275-304
The Quest for Non-gaussianity….Pages 305-358
Production of Topological Defects at the End of Inflation….Pages 359-392
Conceptual Problems of Inflationary Cosmology and a New Approach to Cosmological Structure Formation….Pages 393-424
Back Matter….Pages 425-428
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