MODERN COSMOLOGY

Explaining homogeneity and structure 147 equation of state: at early enough times, the equation of state was such as to cause sm ...

148 Cosmological models from an essentially homogeneous early state (via amplification of initial quantum fluctuations)—a major ...

Explaining homogeneity and structure 149 When the full range of inhomogeneities and anisotropies is taken into account (e.g. [12 ...

150 Cosmological models came into being rather than any of the other options. Some particular solutions of the equations have be ...

Explaining homogeneity and structure 151 references, see Gott and Liu [63]) are based on the quantum cosmology idea of the wavef ...

152 Cosmological models Supposing these technical difficulties can be overcome in each case, it is still unclear that these prop ...

Explaining homogeneity and structure 153 terms of concepts that have a meaning only in a situation of some stability and underly ...

154 Cosmological models Given these problems, any progress is of necessity based on specific philosophical positions, which deci ...

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Chapter 4 Inflationary cosmology and creation of matter in the universe Andrei D Linde Department of Physics, Stanford Universit ...

160 Inflationary cosmology and creation of matter in the universe universe looks like a huge growing fractal. It consists of man ...

Brief history of inflation 161 minimum of its effective potential. The motion of the field away from the false vacuum is of cruc ...

162 Inflationary cosmology and creation of matter in the universe Figure 4.1.Motion of the scalar field in the theory withV(φ)=^ ...

Brief history of inflation 163 equation was very large, and therefore the scalar field was moving very slowly, as a ball in a vi ...

164 Inflationary cosmology and creation of matter in the universe universe of a size∼ 10 −^33 cm, after inflation the distance b ...

Quantum fluctuations in the inflationary universe 165 δφ(x)because of the large friction term 3Hφ ̇in the equation of motion of ...

166 Inflationary cosmology and creation of matter in the universe whereη=−H−^1 e−Htis the conformal time, and theH 3 (/i) 2 are ...