Luca Amendola, Shinji Tsujikawa

Dark Energy

Theory and Observations

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Introducing the theoretical ideas, observational methods and results, this textbook is a thorough introduction for graduate courses.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 506
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1044g
• ISBN-13: 9780521516006
• ISBN-10: 0521516005
• Artikelnr.: 29012729

Autorenporträt

Luca Amendola is Professor of Physics at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He is also an astronomer at the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, Rome, and has authored more than 100 papers in international journals and conference proceedings.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Overview
2. Expansion history of the universe
3. Correlation function and power spectrum
4. Basics of cosmological perturbation theory
5. Observational evidence of dark energy
6. Cosmological constant
7. Dark energy as a modified form of matter I: quintessence
8. Dark energy as a modified form of matter II
9. Dark energy as a modification of gravity
10. Cosmic acceleration without dark energy
11. Dark energy and linear cosmological perturbations
12. Non-linear cosmological perturbations
13. Statistical methods in cosmology
14. Future observational constraints on the nature of dark energy
15. Conclusion and outlook
16. Answers to the problems
17. Mathematical appendix
Index.