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3 Relativistic Cosmology

This section is organized to track the chronological events in the history of the early or relativistic Universe, focusing mainly on four defining moments: (i) the Big Bang singularity and the dynamics of the very early Universe, (ii) inflation and its generic nature, (iii) QCD phase transitions, and (iv) primordial nucleosynthesis and the freeze-out of the light elements. The late or post-recombination epoch is reserved to a separate Section  4 .

  3.1 Singularities
   3.1.1 Mixmaster dynamics
   3.1.2 AVTD vs. BLK oscillatory behavior
  3.2 Inflation
   3.2.1 Plane symmetry
   3.2.2 Spherical symmetry
   3.2.3 Bianchi V
   3.2.4 Gravitational waves + cosmological constant
   3.2.5 3D inhomogeneous spacetimes
  3.3 Chaotic scalar field dynamics
  3.4 Quark-hadron phase transition
  3.5 Nucleosynthesis
  3.6 Cosmological gravitational waves
   3.6.1 Planar symmetry
   3.6.2 Multi-dimensional vacuum cosmologies

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