Inflationary Cosmology: Progress and Problems
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
These lecture notes intend to form a short pedagogical introduction to inflationary cosmology, highlighting selected areas of recent progress such as reheating and the theory of cosmological perturbations. Problems of principle for inflationary cosmology are pointed out, and some new attempts at solving them are indicated, including a nonsingular Universe construction by means of higher derivative terms in the gravitational action, and the study of back-reaction of cosmological perturbations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9910410,
title = {Inflationary Cosmology: Progress and Problems},
author = {Robert H. Brandenberger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9910410},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
43 pages, 8 figures Invited lectures at the International School on Cosmology, Kish Island, Iran, Jan. 22 - Feb. 4 1999, to be publ. in the proceedings (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2000)