Cosmological Inflation and Large-Scale Structure
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This textbook provides graduate students with a thorough and up-to-date introduction to inflationary cosmology. Enormous progress has been made in this area in the last few years and this book is the first to provide a modern and unified overview. It covers all aspects of inflationary cosmology and carefully compares predictions with the latest observations, including those of the cosmic microwave background, the clustering and velocities of galaxies and the epoch of structure formation. Problems are included throughout to help the student to develop a thorough understanding. With the host of international experiments currently being performed and planned for the near future (including NASA's MAP satellite, and the European Space Agency's Planck mission), inflationary cosmology promises to be one of the most exciting and fruitful topics of research in science in the next decade. This book provides graduate students with the ideal introduction.
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The amplitude of curvature perturbations for wavelengths that re-entered the Hubble radius at the last scattering surface is directly related to the temperature anisotropies measured by COBE and WMAP.
“The amplitude of the curvature perturbations for wavelengths that re-entered the Hubble radius at the last scattering surface are directly related[1, 5] to the temperature anisotropies measured by COBE and WMAP[11, 15]-[18],”
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Slow-roll models of inflation generically predict an almost scale-invariant, almost Gaussian distribution of primordial density perturbations.
“In particular, slow-roll models of inflation generically predict an almost scale-invariant, almost Gaussian distribution of primordial density perturbations [1, 2].”
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For multi-field inflation, the scalar spectral index at lowest order in slow-roll is given by Eq. (15).
“For multi-field inflation, the expression for the scalar spectral index has been given, for instance, in [31, 1]. At lowest order in slow-roll one has [2]”
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- Authors
- Liddle, A. R., & Lyth, D. H.
- Affiliations
- University of Sussex (GB)
- Lancaster University (GB)
- ORCID
- Liddle, Andrew R.
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2000-04-13
- OpenAlex
- W2986218762
- Cited by
- 2,317
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 54.19
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- International Linear Collider (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
- Keywords
- cosmic inflation, large-scale structure, cosmic microwave background, galaxy clustering, galaxy velocities, MAP satellite, Planck satellite, observational cosmology
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