INTRODUCTION TO COSMOLOGY

By R. KINAY

CONTENTS FROM NEWTON TO HUBBLE HISTORICAL COSMOLOGY INERTIAL FRAMES AND THE COSMOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE OLBERS’ PARADOX HUBBLE’S LAW THE AGE OF THE UNIVERSE EXPANSION IN A NEWTONIAN WORLD RELATIVITY LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS AND SPECIAL RELATIVITY METRICS OF CURVED SPACE-TIME RELATIVISTIC DISTANCE MEASURES GENERAL RELATIVITY AND THE PRINCIPLE OF COVARIANCE THE PRINCIPLE OF EQUIVALENCE EINSTEIN’S THEORY OF GRAVITATION GRAVITATIONAL PHENOMENA CLASSICAL TESTS OF GENERAL RELATIVITY THE BINARY PULSAR GRAVITATIONAL LENSING BLACK HOLES GRAVITATIONAL WAVES COSMOLOGICAL MODELS FRIEDMANN–LEMAÎTRE COSMOLOGIES DE SITTER COSMOLOGY DARK ENERGY MODEL TESTING AND PARAMETER ESTIMATION I THERMAL HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE PHOTONS ADIABATIC EXPANSION ELECTROWEAK INTERACTIONS THE EARLY RADIATION ERA PHOTON AND LEPTON DECOUPLING BIG BANG NUCLEOSYNTHESIS PARTICLES AND SYMMETRIES SPIN SPACE SU(2) SYMMETRIES HADRONS AND QUARKS THE DISCRETE SYMMETRIES C, P, T SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING PRIMEVAL PHASE TRANSITIONS AND SYMMETRIES BARYOSYNTHESIS AND ANTIMATTER GENERATION COSMIC IN?ATION PARADOXES OF THE EXPANSION ‘OLD’ AND ‘NEW’ IN?ATION CHAOTIC IN?ATION THE IN?ATON AS QUINTESSENCE CYCLIC MODELS COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND THE CMB TEMPERATURE TEMPERATURE ANISOTROPIES POLARIZATION ANISOTROPIES MODEL TESTING AND PARAMETER ESTIMATION II COSMIC STRUCTURES AND DARK MATTER DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS STRUCTURE FORMATION THE EVIDENCE FOR DARK MATTER DARK MATTER CANDIDATES THE COLD DARK MATTER PARADIGM 10 EPILOGUE SINGULARITIES OPEN QUESTIONS