The Physical Universe: The Interface Between Cosmology, Astrophysics and Particle Physics: Proceedings of the XII Autumn School of Physics Held at Lisbon, Portugal, 1–5 October 1990: 383 - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 3662138158 ISBN 13: 9783662138151

Casa editrice: Springer, 2013

Riassunto

Leading scientists present here a collection of survey articles and seminar reports to introduce students of astrophysics and particle physics to modern research on the early universe.

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Contenuti

Gravitation and hot big-bang cosmology.- Euclideanized Einstein-Yang-Mills equations, wormholes and the ground-state wave function of a radiation dominated Universe.- Experiments with neutrinos.- Topological defects in the early universe.- The space telescope and the problems of cosmology.- Self-gravitating magnetic monopoles, global monopoles and black holes.- Understanding large-scale cosmic structure.- Metric space as a model of spacetime: Classical theory and quantization.- Galaxy formation — An update.- The hypothesis of the expansion of the universe and the global tests.- The early universe behaviour with non-minimal coupling.- Stability of compactification in Einstein-Yang-Mills theories.- Multivariate analysis and pattern recognition methods: A short review and some current directions.- Cooling of neutron stars.- Experiments in high energy physics: A brief introduction.- Nucleosynthesis in big-bang models.- The cosmological constant, third quantization and all that.- Structure of the inflationary universe.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 3662138158
• ISBN 13: 9783662138151
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 324
• Redattore: Barrow John D., Henriques Alfredo B., Lago Maria T.V.T., Longair Malcom S.
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