nLab cosmology

Idea

Cosmology is the study of the observable universe on its largest scales.

Related entries

[[!nclude cosmology – contents]]

References

See also the references at standard model of cosmology.

General

Brief review:

• Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota, George Smoot, Cosmology today – A brief review, AIP Conf. Proc. 1396 (2011) 28-52 [arXiv:1107.1789, doi:10.1063/1.3647524]

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:

• Anna Ijjas, Frans Pretorius, Paul Steinhardt, Stability and the gauge problem in non-perturbative cosmology, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Volume 2019, January 2019 (arXiv:1809.07010, doi:10.1088/1475-7516/2019/01/015)

In terms of AQFT on curved spacetimes

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)