420 Index
dark matter, 70, 355
candidate particles, 204
cold relics, 205
existence of, 389
hot relics, 204
nonthermal relics, 207
de Sitter universe, 29, 233, 261
deceleration parameter, 12
delayed recombination, effect on
CMB, 372, 373
CMB polarization, 400
Silk damping, 372
determining cosmological parameters, 367,
379
deuterium abundance, 104, 114
domain walls, 217, 218
dust, 9
effective potential
one-loop contribution, 168
thermal contribution, 169
Einstein equations, 20
linearized, 297
electroweak theory, 150
fermion interactions, 158
Higgs mechanism, 154
phase transitions in, 176, 199
topological transitions in, 194, 196
energy–momentum tensor, 21
for imperfect fluid, 311
for perfect fluid, 21
for scalar field, 21
equation of state, 21
discontinuous change in, 305
for oscillating field, 242
for scalar field, 235
ultra-hard, 236
event horizon, 40, 327
Fermi four-fermion interaction, 150
Fermi–Dirac distribution, 78
fermion number violation, 197
Feynman diagrams, 134
flatness problem, 228
free streaming effect, 318, 362
Friedmann equations, 23, 58, 233
gauge symmetry
global vs. local, 133
spontaneously broken, 154
Gaussian random fields, 323
correlation function, 324
gluons, 139
Grand Unification of particle physics, 199
gravitational waves, 348
effect on CMB, 391
effect on CMB polarization, 404
evolution of, 351
power spectrum of, 349, 351
quantization of, 348
hadrons, 138
helium-4 abundance, 110
Higgs mechanism, 154
in electroweak theory, 154
homogeneity, 14
homogeneity problem, 227
homotopy groups, 219
horizon problem, 227
Hubble expansion, 5, 28, 56
Hubble horizon, 39, 327
hybrid topological defects, 225
hydrogen ionization fraction, 123, 127
imperfect fluid approximation, 311
inflation, 73
attractor solution, 236, 238
chaotic inflation, 260
definition of, 230
different scenarios, 256
graceful exit, 233, 239
in higher-derivative gravity, 257
kinflation, 259
minimum e-folds, 234
new inflation, 259
old inflation, 259
predictions of, 354
slow-roll approximation, 241, 329
with kinetic term, 259
inflaton, 235
initial velocities problem, 228
instantaneous recombination, 357
instantons, 180
for topological transitions, 194
in field theory, 185
thin wall approximation, 188
isotropy, 14
Jeans length, 269
Kobayashi–Maskawa matrix, 162, 164, 215
large-scale structure, 288
lepton era, 89
leptons, 151
Linde–Weinberg bound, 172, 178
Liouville’s theorem, 358
Lobachevski space, 16
local equilibrium, 74
Lyman-αphotons, 124
Majorana mass term, 213
matter–radiation equality, 72
Mathieu equation, 247
mesons, 138
Milne universe, 27
MIT bag model, 147
monopole problem, 223
monopoles, 217, 221
local, 222
narrow resonance, 245
condition for, 248
neutralino, 206
neutrino, 151
left- and right-handed, 151