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Lectures on classical and quantum cosmology

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2022-08-17 v3 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

These lecture notes introduce the reader to the hot big bang model, cosmological perturbations, gravitational waves, the cosmic microwave background, inflation, the singularity problem, the cosmological constant problem and the cosmology of quantum gravity.

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@article{arxiv.2202.13875,
  title  = {Lectures on classical and quantum cosmology},
  author = {Gianluca Calcagni and Maria Grazia Di Luca and Tomáš Fodran},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.13875},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

64 pages. Lecture notes of the Corfu Summer Institute 2021 "School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity", 29 August - 9 October 2021, Corfu, Greece. v2: plots updated, minor typos corrected, references added; v3: further minor typos corrected

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