"Computational Cosmology: From the Early Universe to the Large Scale Structure"
by
Peter Anninos
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Abstract
1
Introduction
2
Background
2.1
A brief chronology
2.2
The standard model
3
Relativistic Cosmology
3.1
Singularities
3.2
Inflation
3.3
Chaotic scalar field dynamics
3.4
Quark-hadron phase transition
3.5
Nucleosynthesis
3.6
Cosmological gravitational waves
4
Physical Cosmology
4.1
Cosmic microwave background
4.2
Gravitational lensing
4.3
First star formation
4.4
Ly
forest
4.5
Galaxy clusters
4.6
Cosmological sheets
5
Summary
6
Appendix: Basic Equations and Numerical Methods
6.1
The Einstein equations
6.2
Sources of matter
6.3
Constrained nonlinear initial data
6.4
Newtonian limit
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