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Article Contents

TITLE PAGE

1.INTRODUCTION
1.1.Recombination
1.2.Sources of DeltaT/T

2.THEORY
2.1.Inflation
2.2.Structure Formation Theories
2.3.The Correlation Function
2.4.Fluctuations

3.POWER SPECTRUM
3.1.Power Spectrum on Large Scales
3.2.Power Spectra on Smaller Scales
3.3.The Observed Power Spectrum

4.DATA ANALYSIS
4.1.The Gaussian Auto-Correlation Function
4.2.Window Functions
4.3.Fitting Data

5.BEYOND LINEAR THEORY
5.1.Reionization
5.2.Second-Order Anisotropies

6.UNCERTAINTIES

7.NON-STANDARD COSMOLOGIES
7.1.Polarization
7.2.Open Universes
7.3.Effects of a Cosmological Constant
7.4.Topology

8.CONCLUSIONS

9.APPENDIXES
9.1.Some Useful Numbers
9.2.Sachs-Wolfe Effect

REFERENCES

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