Lectures on Cosmology: Accelerated Expansion of the Universe

The lectures that four authors present in this volume investigate core topics related to the accelerated expansion of the Universe. Accelerated expansion occured in the ?36 very early Universe - an exponential expansion in the in ationary period 10 s after the Big Bang. This well-established theoretical concept had rst been p- posed in 1980 by Alan Guth to account for the homogeneity and isotropy of the observable universe, and simultaneously by Alexei Starobinski, and has since then been developed by many authors in great theoretical detail. An accelerated expansion of the late Universe at redshifts z

• | Author: Georg Wolschin
• | Publisher: Springer
• | Publication Date: Mar 11, 2010
• | Number of Pages: 200 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 3642105971
• | ISBN-13: 9783642105975