Cosmology for physicists
β Scribed by Lyth, David
- Publisher
- CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 181
- Series
- Series in astronomy and astrophysics
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Written by an award-winning cosmologist, this brand new textbook provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students with coverage of the very latest developments in the observational science of cosmology. The book is separated into three parts; part I covers particle physics and general relativity, part II explores an account of the known history of the universe, and part III studies inflation. Full treatment of the origin of structure, scalar fields, the cosmic microwave background and the early universe are provided.
Problems are included in the book with solutions provided in a separate solutions manual. More advanced extension material is offered in the Appendix, ensuring the book is fully accessible to students with a wide variety of background experience.
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A Mathematican based package SUPERLie for the study of Lie (super)algebras and their cohomology is offered. Among applications we find: (1) calculation of the RieΠ½ mannian tensors needed to write Supergravity Equations for any NΠ½extended Minkowski superspace and to classify possible models for these
The main topics of this book are cohomology, sheaves, and sheaf cohomology. Why? Mostly because for more than thirty years the senior author has been trying to learn algebraic geometry. To his dismay, he realized that since 1960, under the in uence and vision of A. Grothendieck and his collabora
This book is an introductory text for all those wishing to learn about modern views of the cosmos. Our universe originated in a great explosion - the big bang. For nearly a century cosmologists have studied the aftermath of this explosion: how the universe expanded and cooled down, and how galaxies