Elements of string cosmology / Maurizio Gasperini.
Self-contained, pedagogical introduction to string cosmology for astrophysicists and high-energy physicists.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notation, units and conventions; 1 A short review of standard and inflationary cosmology; 2 The basic string cosmology equations; 3 Conformal invariance and string effective actions; 4 Duality symmetries and cosmological solutions; 5 Inflationary kinematics; 6 The string phase; 7 The cosmic background of relic gravitational waves; 8 Scalar perturbations and the anisotropy of the CMB radiation; 9 Dilaton phenomenology; 10 Elements of brane cosmology; References; Index.