Enrico Pajer - Cosmology
These lectures give an introduction to four pillars of modern cosmology: an expanding universe, Large Scale Structures, the Cosmic Microwave Background and inflation. These are the notes from the Part III Math course given in M 2018 and M 2019.
Please do let me know if you find any typos or errors!
Contents
- Overview
- General Relativity in a nutshell
- A Homogeneous and Isotropic Expanding Universe
- Redshift and distances
- Constituents of the universe
- Thermal history
- Out of equilibrium processes: Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
- Inflation: motivations
- Single-field slow-roll inflation
- Cosmological perturbation theory