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Lectures on inflation and cosmological perturbations

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Lectures on inflation and cosmological perturbations by David Langlois

arXiv:1001.5259v1 [astro-ph.CO]

 

 

The above are notes based on lectures given at the Second TRR33 Winter School on cosmology, Passo del Tonale (Italy), December 2008.

 

I have not read them very carefully, but they represent a modern and accessible introduction to cosmic inflation.

 

To date, a hot big bang + inflation model has survived against its competitors as a good model of the early universe. It makes predictions of the fluctuations in the CMBR via quantum perturbation in the inflaton field. Observations seem to agree with this theoretical set-up.

 

It is expected that future more detailed studies of the CMBR may be able to differentiate between the many realisations of cosmic inflation.

 

Hope you all enjoy this account.

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