Inflation, quantum fluctuations and cosmological perturbations
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
These lectures are intended to give a pedagogical introduction to the main current picture of the very early universe. After elementary reviews of general relativity and of the standard Big Bang model, the following subjects are discussed: inflation, the classical relativistic theory of cosmological perturbations and the generation of perturbations from scalar field quantum fluctuations during inflation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/0405053,
title = {Inflation, quantum fluctuations and cosmological perturbations},
author = {David Langlois},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0405053},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
44 pages; 3 figures. Lectures delivered at the Cargese School of Physics and Cosmology, Cargese, France, August 2003