Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 622 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781139014403
Content:
Cosmology has been transformed by dramatic progress in high-precision observations and theoretical modelling. This book surveys key developments and open issues for graduate students and researchers. Using a relativistic geometric approach, it focuses on the general concepts and relations that underpin the standard model of the Universe. Part I covers foundations of relativistic cosmology whilst Part II develops the dynamical and observational relations for all models of the Universe based on general relativity. Part III focuses on the standard model of cosmology, including inflation, dark matter, dark energy, perturbation theory, the cosmic microwave background, structure formation and gravitational lensing. It also examines modified gravity and inhomogeneity as possible alternatives to dark energy. Anisotropic and inhomogeneous models are described in Part IV, and Part V reviews deeper issues, such as quantum cosmology, the start of the universe and the multiverse proposal. Colour versions of some figures are available at www.cambridge.org/9780521381154.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521381154
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ellis, George F. R., 1939 - Relativistic cosmology Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012 ISBN 0521381150
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521381154
Language:
English
Subjects:
Physics
Keywords:
Kosmologie
;
Relativistischer Effekt
;
Relativistische Astrophysik
;
Kosmologie
;
Lehrbuch
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139014403
Author information:
Ellis, George F. R. 1939-
