Birth of the Universe and Fundamental Physics Proceedings of the International Workshop Held in Rome, Italy, 18–21 May 1994
The articles collected in this volume cover topics ranging from Planck-scale physics to galaxy clustering. They deal with various new ideas from cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics that might lead to a better understanding of our physical universe. Among the topics covered are inflationary...
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| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1995, 1995
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1995 |
| Series: | Lecture Notes in Physics
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Table of Contents:
- Billiard representation for multidimensional quantum cosmology near the singularity
- Connecting inflation to observations
- False vacuum chaotic Inflation: The new paradigm?
- Comments on standard cosmology
- Emergence of classical geometry in quantum cosmology
- Non-linear relativistic evolution of cosmological perturbations in irrotational dust
- Observing cosmic strings through their lensing properties
- Scalar-tensor theories with generalized dilaton couplings
- Long-range energy and momentum transfer in the Quark-Hadron Phase Transition
- Exact solutions for cosmological perturbations with collisionless matter
- First-order inflation in general relativity
- Beyond direct hierarchical clustering
- Evidence that gamma-ray bursts repeat and are Galactic in origin
- Quasars and large scale structure of the universe.-Primordial perturbation spectra with broken scale invariance and comparison with observations
- Mixed cold-hot dark matter model with a falling initial perturbation spectrum
- Voids and adhesion theory
- The current status of late time phase transition models
- Primary anisotropy detections in the cosmic microwave background
- COBE observations of the Big Bang
- The COBRAS/SAMBA mission
- Cosmic strings confront COBE
- Beyond the central limit theorem
- Using the equation of hydrostatic equilibrium for the determination of galaxy clusters masses
- The cluster distribution as a test for dark matter models
- Kurtosis of cosmological density and velocity fields
- CMBR polarization from gravitational waves
- Hamilton-Jacobi theory and the Zel'dovich approximation
- The effect of gravitational lensing on observations of the CMBR
- Angular momentum redistribution in remnants of merger of galaxies
- Galaxy surveys and dark matter models: The statistics of voids
- X-ray data vs. galaxy velocity dispersions in galaxy clusters
- Gravitational microlensing by halo dark matter
- Merging rates inside large scale structures
- The environment of local AGNs
- A comparison of approximations to gravitational instability
- Primordial molecules in the collapse phase of a protocloud
- The least-action approach to gravitational instability
- Stochastic aggregation model for the multifractal distribution of matter
- The theory of everything vs the theory of anything
- Baryogenesis in brief
- The complex scalar field, instantons and inflationary universes
- Cosmoparticle physics of family symmetry breaking
- Recent progress in inflationary cosmology
- Black holes, wormholes, and time machines
- Concluding Remarks
- Wave function of the universe and particle physics
- Gravitational topological charge
- Cosmological principle and the debate about large scale structures distribution
- Statistics of cosmological inhomogeneities
- The potential of potential reconstruction
- Naturalness of inflation
- Inflation and gravitational waves
- Stationary Universe Model: Inputs and Outputs
- The inflationary role of the dilaton in string cosmology
- String cosmology
- Multidimensional cosmological models: Classical and quantum solutions
- Semiclassical equations for homogeneous cosmologies with perturbations
- Nöther symmetries and exact solutions
- Thermodynamics of solitons
- A Schrödinger equation for quantum universes
- Cosmic time machines
- First post inflationary particles equation of state
- Thermal quantum corrections to (Anti) de Sitter geometry
- Primordial non-gaussian signatures in the sky
- Quantum diffusion of planck mass and the evolution of the universe