Cosmology for Physicists

ISBN-13: 9780367574383 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 168 str.

David Lyth

Opis

Written by an award-winnning cosmologist, this new textbook provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students with coverage of the very latest developments in the field. Problems and solutions are included and more advanced extension material is offered in the Appendix, ensuring the book is accessible to students.

Recenzje

"Exploring modern cosmology in depth, from its most basic ideas right up to discussions on cutting-edge research on topics such as inflationary cosmology, Cosmology for Physicists explains the most complex concepts, for example that of the delta N formalism based on the ‘Separate Universe Assumption’, in a simple and understandable manner. This text book is an unprecedented attempt to clearly explain fast-evolving topics in cosmology and is written by one of the most famous cosmologists in the world."
—Dr. Kazunori Kohri, Associate Professor, KEK, Japan

Spis treści

The Universe. Particle Physics. General Relativity. The Present Universe. A First Look at the History. Energy Density of the Universe. The First Stage. Onward to the Present. Cosmological Redshift. The Primordial Curvature Perturbation. Ripples in the Universe. Galaxy Formation. Scalar Fields. Inflation. Generating the Perturbation. Prehistory of the Big Bang. Epilogue.

O autorze

David Lyth is an Emeritus Professor of Physics at Lancaster University. He has made several key advances in cosmology, and received the Hoyle medal and prize from the Institute of Physics in 2012. He has written three academic physics books.

David Lyth has been responsible for many of the key advances in the theory of inflation, and has devised many of the analytical tools that are now widely used by the theoretical cosmology community. His work is always characterised by an incisive clarity. Although mathematically sophisticated, it always maintains contact with observation. The methods he developed have become the standard language for those who compare observational data obtained by the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) and the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) with the predictions of inflationary theory. While much work on inflation has been purely phenomenological, Lyth has linked cosmology with fundamental physics, particularly extensions of the Standard Model.

In 2000, together with Andrew Liddle, he published a textbook on cosmological inflation and large-scale structure that has become the standard reference and an essential resource for everyone in the field. They followed this up in 2009 with the first graduatelevel textbook devoted specifically to the primordial density perturbation. Both books exemplify David's dedication to accurate scholarship and his ability to make complex concepts accessible.