PARTICLE PHYSICS AND INFLATIONARY COSMOLOGY
CONTENTS CHAPTER OVERVIEW OF UNI?ED THEORIES OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND THE IN?A- TIONARY UNIVERSE SCENARIO THE SCALAR ?ELD AND SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING PHASE TRANSITIONS IN GAUGE THEORIES HOT UNIVERSE THEORY SOME PROPERTIES OF THE FRIEDMANN MODELS PROBLEMS OF THE STANDARD SCENARIO A SKETCH OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE IN?ATIONARY UNIVERSE SCE- NARIO THE CHAOTIC IN?ATION SCENARIO THE SELF-REGENERATING UNIVERSE SUMMARY CHAPTER SCALAR FIELD, E?ECTIVE POTENTIAL, AND SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAK- ING CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM SCALAR ?ELDS QUANTUM CORRECTIONS TO THE E?ECTIVE POTENTIAL V(?) THE 1/N EXPANSION AND THE E?ECTIVE POTENTIAL IN THE ??4/N THEORY THE E?ECTIVE POTENTIAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITATIONAL E?ECTS RESTORATION OF SYMMETRY AT HIGH TEMPERATURE PHASE TRANSITIONS IN THE SIMPLEST MODELS WITH SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING PHASE TRANSITIONS IN REALISTIC THEORIES OF THE WEAK, STRONG, AND ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS HIGHER-ORDER PERTURBATION THEORY AND THE INFRARED PROBLEM IN THE THERMODYNAMICS OF GAUGE ?ELDS PHASE TRANSITIONS IN COLD SUPERDENSE MATTER RESTORATION OF SYMMETRY IN THEORIES WITH NO NEUTRAL CURRENTS ENHANCEMENT OF SYMMETRY BREAKING AND THE CONDENSATION OF VECTOR MESONS IN THEORIES WITH NEUTRAL CURRENTS TUNNELING THEORY AND THE DECAY OF A METASTABLE PHASE IN A FIRST- ORDER PHASE TRANSITION GENERAL THEORY OF THE FORMATION OF BUBBLES OF A NEW PHASE THE THIN-WALL APPROXIMATION BEYOND THE THIN-WALL APPROXIMATION PHASE TRANSITIONS IN A HOT UNIVERSE PHASE TRANSITIONS WITH SYMMETRY BREAKING BETWEEN THE WEAK, STRONG, AND ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS DOMAIN WALLS, STRINGS, AND MONOPOLES GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF IN?ATIONARY COSMOLOGY INTRODUCTION THE IN?ATIONARY UNIVERSE AND DE SITTER SPACE QUANTUM ?UCTUATIONS IN THE IN?ATIONARY UNIVERSE TUNNELING IN THE IN?ATIONARY UNIVERSE QUANTUM ?UCTUATIONS AND THE GENERATION OF ADIABATIC DENSITY PERTURBATIONS ARE SCALE-FREE ADIABATIC PERTURBATIONS SU?CIENT TO PRODUCE THE OBSERVED LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE? ISOTHERMAL PERTURBATIONS AND ADIABATIC PERTURBATIONS WITH A NON?AT SPECTRUM NONPERTURBATIVE E?ECTS: STRINGS, HEDGEHOGS, WALLS, BUBBLES, REHEATING OF THE UNIVERSE AFTER IN?ATION 7 10 THE ORIGIN OF THE BARYON ASYMMETRY OF THE UNIVERSE THE NEW IN?ATIONARY UNIVERSE SCENARIO INTRODUCTION THE OLD IN?ATIONARY UNIVERSE SCENARIO THE COLEMAN–WEINBERG SU(5) THEORY AND THE NEW IN?ATIONARY UNIVERSE SCENARIO (INITIAL SIMPLI?ED VERSION) RE?NEMENT OF THE NEW IN?ATIONARY UNIVERSE SCENARIO PRIMORDIAL IN?ATION IN N = 1 SUPERGRAVITY THE SHA?–VILENKIN MODEL THE CHAOTIC IN?ATION SCENARIO INTRODUCTION BASIC FEATURES OF THE SCENARIO THE QUESTION OF INITIAL CONDITIONS THE SIMPLEST MODEL BASED ON THE SU(5) THEORY CHAOTIC IN?ATION IN SUPERGRAVITY THE MODI?ED STAROBINSKY MODEL AND THE COMBINED SCENARIO IN?ATION IN KALUZA–KLEIN AND SUPERSTRING THEORIES IN?ATION AND QUANTUM COSMOLOGY 10 1 THE WAVE FUNCTION OF THE UNIVERSE 10 2 QUANTUM COSMOLOGY AND THE GLOBAL STRUCTURE OF THE IN?ATIONARY UNIVERSE 10 3 THE SELF-REGENERATING IN?ATIONARY UNIVERSE AND QUANTUM COS- MOLOGY 10 4 THE GLOBAL STRUCTURE OF THE IN?ATIONARY UNIVERSE AND THE PROBLEM OF THE GENERAL COSMOLOGICAL SINGULARITY 10 5 IN?ATION AND THE ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE 10 6 QUANTUM COSMOLOGY AND THE SIGNATURE OF SPACE-TIME 10 7 THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT, THE ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE, AND REDU- PLICATION OF THE UNIVERSE AND LIFE AFTER IN?ATION CONCLUSION REFERENCES