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Luca Amendola, Shinji Tsujikawa
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Machine generated contents note: 1. Overview; 2. Expansion history of the universe; 3. Correlation function and power spectrum; 4. Basics of cosmological perturbation theory; 5. Observational evidence of dark energy; 6. Cosmological constant; 7. Dark energy as a modified form of matter I: quintessence; 8. Dark energy as a modified form of matter II; 9. Dark energy as a modification of gravity; 01. Cosmic acceleration without dark energy; 11. Dark energy and linear cosmological perturbations; 21. Non-linear cosmological perturbations; 31. Statistical methods in cosmology; 41. Future observational constraints on the nature of dark energy; 51. Conclusion and outlook; 61. Answers to the problems; 71. Mathematical appendix; Index