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.


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Contents

  1. Overview
  2. General Relativity in a nutshell
  3. A Homogeneous and Isotropic Expanding Universe
  4. Redshift and distances
  5. Constituents of the universe
  6. Thermal history
  7. Out of equilibrium processes: Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
  8. Inflation: motivations
  9. Single-field slow-roll inflation
  10. Cosmological perturbation theory