Lectures given at the 5th Mexican School on Gravitation and Mathematical Physics in Nov. 2002.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Cosmology -- Congresses.
Dark energy (Astronomy) -- Congresses.
Dark matter (Astronomy) -- Congresses.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
QB980
Book number
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N374
2004
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
N. Bretón, J.L. Cervantes-Cota, M. Salgado (eds.).