Formalism
Definition
Spacetime configurations
Properties
Spacetimes
black hole spacetimes | vanishing angular momentum | positive angular momentum |
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vanishing charge | Schwarzschild spacetime | Kerr spacetime |
positive charge | Reissner-Nordstrom spacetime | Kerr-Newman spacetime |
Quantum theory
Cosmology is the study of the observable universe on its largest scales.
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See also the references at standard model of cosmology.
Brief review:
Textbook accounts:
Steven Weinberg: Gravitation and Cosmology: Principles and Applications of the General Theory of Relativity, Wiley (1972, 2013) [ISBN:978-0-471-92567-5, ark:/13960/t13n7rw1f, spire:1410180]
P. J. E. Peebles, Principles of Physical Cosmology, Princeton University Press (1993, 2020) [ISBN:9780691209814, pdf]
John Peacock, Cosmological Physics, Cambridge University Press (1998, 2012) [doi:10.1017/CBO9780511804533, book webpage]
Pietro Fré, Gravity, a Geometrical Course, Volume 2: Black Holes, Cosmology and Introduction to Supergravity, Springer (2013) [doi:10.1007/978-94-007-5443-0]
Lecture notes:
Matthias Blau, Part F of: Lecture notes on general relativity (web)
Oliver F. Piattella, Lecture Notes in Cosmology, UNITEXT for Physics, Springer (2018) [arXiv:1803.00070, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-95570-4]
Daniel Baumann, TASI Lectures on Primordial Cosmology (arXiv:1807.03098)
Gianluca Calcagni, Maria Grazia Di Luca, Tomáš Fodran, Lecture at Corfu2021Lectures on classical and quantum cosmology [arXiv:2202.13875, spire:2039729]
See also:
Ned Wright, Cosmology tutorial
Wikipedia, Cosmology
Emphasis on non-perturbative effects:
Discussion of cosmology in terms of perturbative AQFT AQFT on curved spacetimes includes the following:
Klaus Fredenhagen, Thomas-Paul Hack, Quantum field theory on curved spacetime and the standard cosmological model (arXiv:1308.6773)
Romeo Brunetti, Klaus Fredenhagen, Thomas-Paul Hack, Nicola Pinamonti, Katarzyna Rejzner, Cosmological perturbation theory and quantum gravity (arXiv:1605.02573)
Thomas-Paul Hack, Cosmological Applications of Algebraic Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetimes, Springer 2016 (arXiv:1506.01869, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-21894-6)
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