Published in "Sov. Sci. Rev. E Astrophys. Space Phys.",
Vol. 5, 1986, pp. 1-37
COSMOLOGICAL FIELD THEORY FOR OBSERVATIONAL ASTRONOMERS
YA. B. Zel'dovich
Institute for Space Research, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, USSR
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
- WELL-ESTABLISHED NEW PHYSICS
- HYPOTHESIZED NEW PHYSICS
- AN INTERLUDE: PARTICLES AND FIELDS
- THE SCALAR FIELD
- AN OVERVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF SCALAR FIELD THEORY
- Renormalization in Electrodynamics
- The Higgs Field
- PROPERTIES OF THE SCALAR FIELD
- THE SCALAR FIELD IN AN EXPANDING UNIVERSE
- HIGGS-BASED KIRZHNITS-LINDE INFLATION
- LINDE INFLATION WITH MONOTONIC V(K)
- BEHAVIOR OF THE SCALAR FIELD UNDER EXPANSION AND
COMPRESSION
- SOME COSMOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS
- REFERENCES
