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Article Contents
- TITLE PAGE
- 1.INTRODUCTION
- 2. THE STANDARD MODEL AND ITS
DIFFICULTIES
- 2.1. The
Friedman-Robertson-Walker Model with a Hot Big Bang
- 2.2. Some Puzzling Features of
the FRW Models
- 2.2.1. The Horizon Problem
- 2.2.2. The Flatness Problem
- 2.2.3. Monopoles
- 2.2.4. Domain Walls
- 2.2.5. Smoothness Problem
- 2.2.6. The
-Term
- 2.3. The Problem of Formation of
Structures
- 3. THE CONCEPT OF INFLATION
- 3.1. The Basic Mechanism
- 3.2. The Epicycles of Inflation
- 3.3. Historical Comment
- 4. THE PROBLEM OF STRUCTURE
FORMATION
- 4.1. The Scale Invariant
Spectrum
- 4.2. Origin of Density
Perturbations
- 4.3. A Critique of Inflation:
Expectations and Performance
- 5. INFLATION AND DARK MATTER
- 6. THE COSMOLOGICAL CONSTANT
- 7. OUTLOOK
- REFERENCES