astro-ph/0005003


AN EXPOSITION ON INFLATIONARY COSMOLOGY

Gary Scott Watson

Dept. of Physics, Brown University, P.O. Box 1843, Providence, RI 02912
E-mail: watson@het.brown.edu


Abstract. This paper is intended to offer a pedagogical treatment of inflationary cosmology, which is accessible to undergraduates. In recent years, inflation has become accepted as a standard scenario making predictions that are testable by observations of the cosmic background. It is therefore manifest that anyone wishing to pursue the study of cosmology and large-scale structure should have this scenario at their disposal. The author hopes this paper will serve to `bridge the gap' between technical and popular accounts of the subject.


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