Inflationary cosmology and structure formation
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
These lectures cover the basics of inflationary models for the early universe, concentrating particularly on the generation of density fluctuations from scalar-field dynamics. The subsequent gravitational dynamics of these fluctuations in dark matter in a Friedmann model are described, leading to a review of the current situation in confronting inflationary models with the latest data on the clustering of galaxies and other measures of large-scale structure.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9601135,
title = {Inflationary cosmology and structure formation},
author = {J. A. Peacock},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9601135},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Lectures given at the EADN summer school "The structure of the universe", Leiden, July 1995. 77 pages TeX with macros included. Postscript figures from ftp://ftp.roe.ac.uk/pub/jap/leiden/