MODERN COSMOLOGY

Index 477

homogeneous, 19
hot big bang, 219
Hubble
drag, 53
generalized law, 113
parameter, 113, 240

inflation, 108, 159, 259
chaotic, 161
consistency check, 260
eternal, 169
new, 161
old, 160
tests of, 258
inflationary consistency equation,
102
inflaton field, 161, 213
initial conditions
explanation of, 150
showing irrelevance of, 147
invariants, 10
irremovable problem, 153
isotropic, 19
isotropisation properties, 138

Jacobi identities, 123
Jeans length, 50

Kamiokande, 296
Killing vectors, 125
kinematic quantities, 113

large-scale structures, 47
last-scattering shell, 91
Lemaˆıtre, 108
Lemaˆıtre–Tolman–Bondi models,
130
lens
equation, 384
plane, 383
Schwarzschild, 393, 394
lepton number, 188
Lie derivative, 125
Limber’s equation, 71
linearized equations of motion, 47

Lorentz group symmetry, 10

luminosity

distance, 29, 315

luminosity function

galaxy, 326, 327

x-ray cluster, 338, 339

luminosity segregation effect, 376

Lyman-break technique, 328, 330

M theory, 211

magnetic fields

primordial

tests of, 257

MAP satellite, 251

mass refinement, 428

mass–length relation, 369

matter–radiation equality, 87, 242

MAXIMA, 247

mean streaming, 351

Metropolis algorithm, 246

microlensing, 394

microwave foreground emission,

247

Minimal Supersymmetric Standard

Model (MSSM), 199

ML sample, 371

model independent constraints, 251

monopole problem, 36

multigrid, 432

negative

curvature, 20

Neutralino, 265

neutralino, 199, 283

thermal history, 200

neutrino, 189, 296–310

beyond SM, 195

effective species, 241, 243

mass, 194, 241, 243

mixing and oscillations, 297

thermal history, 196

Newton, 379

nucleosynthesis, 282

number counts, 319, 320, 325, 328