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INFLATION FOR ASTRONOMERS
J.V. Narlikar
Inter-University
Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Post Bag 4,
Ganeshkhind, Pune 411 007, India
T. Padmanabhan
Tata Institute of
Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road,
Bombay 400 005, India
Key Words: early universe, cosmology
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
- THE STANDARD MODEL AND ITS DIFFICULTIES
- The Friedman-Robertson-Walker Model with a Hot
Big Bang
- Some Puzzling Features of the FRW Models
- The Horizon Problem
- The Flatness Problem
- Monopoles
- Domain Walls
- Smoothness Problem
- The
-Term
- The Problem of Formation of Structures
- THE CONCEPT OF INFLATION
- The Basic Mechanism
- The Epicycles of Inflation
- Historical Comment
- THE PROBLEM OF STRUCTURE FORMATION
- The Scale Invariant Spectrum
- Origin of Density Perturbations
- A Critique of Inflation: Expectations and
Performance
- INFLATION AND DARK MATTER
- THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT
- OUTLOOK
- REFERENCES
