PHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS OF COSMOLOGY
SELF-SIMILAR SOLUTION COLD MATTER IN THE PRESENCE OF RADIATION OR DARK ENERGY BEYOND LINEAR APPROXIMATION TOLMAN SOLUTION ZEL’DOVICH SOLUTION COSMIC WEB GRAVITATIONAL INSTABILITY IN GENERAL RELATIVITY PERTURBATIONS AND GAUGE-INVARIANT VARIABLES CLASSI?CATION OF PERTURBATIONS GAUGE TRANSFORMATIONS AND GAUGE-INVARIANT VARIABLES COORDINATE SYSTEMS EQUATIONS FOR COSMOLOGICAL PERTURBATIONS HYDRODYNAMICAL PERTURBATIONS SCALAR PERTURBATIONS VECTOR AND TENSOR PERTURBATIONS BARYON–RADIATION PLASMA AND COLD DARK MATTER EQUATIONS EVOLUTION OF PERTURBATIONS AND TRANSFER FUNCTIONS IN?ATION II: ORIGIN OF THE PRIMORDIAL INHOMOGENEITIES CHARACTERIZING PERTURBATIONS PERTURBATIONS ON IN?ATION (SLOW-ROLL APPROXIMATION) INSIDE THE HUBBLE SCALE THE SPECTRUM OF GENERATED PERTURBATIONS WHY DO WE NEED IN?ATION? QUANTUM COSMOLOGICAL PERTURBATIONS CLASSICAL SOLUTIONS QUANTIZING PERTURBATIONS GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM IN?ATION SELF-REPRODUCTION OF THE UNIVERSE IN?ATION AS A THEORY WITH PREDICTIVE POWER COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND ANISOTROPIES BASICS SACHS–WOLFE EFFECT INITIAL CONDITIONS CORRELATION FUNCTION AND MULTIPOLES ANISOTROPIES ON LARGE ANGULAR SCALES DELAYED RECOMBINATION AND THE ?NITE THICKNESS EFFECT ANISOTROPIES ON SMALL ANGULAR SCALES TRANSFER FUNCTIONS MULTIPOLE MOMENTS PARAMETERS CALCULATING THE SPECTRUM DETERMINING COSMIC PARAMETERS GRAVITATIONAL WAVES POLARIZATION OF THE COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND 9 10 1 POLARIZATION TENSOR 9 10 2 THOMSON SCATTERING AND POLARIZATION 9 10 3 DELAYED RECOMBINATION AND POLARIZATION 9 10 4 E AND B POLARIZATION MODES AND CORRELATION FUNCTIONS REIONIZATION BIBLIOGRAPHY EXPANDING UNIVERSE (CHAPTERS 1 AND 2) HOT UNIVERSE AND NUCLEOSYNTHESIS (CHAPTER 3) PARTICLE PHYSICS AND EARLY UNIVERSE (CHAPTER 4) INFLATION (CHAPTERS 5 AND 8) GRAVITATIONAL INSTABILITY (CHAPTERS 6 AND 7) CMB FLUCTUATIONS (CHAPTER 9)