nLab cosmology

Idea

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

Related entries

cosmology

• gravity

• standard model of cosmology

• FRW model

• redshift, comoving time

• big bang, steady state model of cosmology

• inhomogeneous cosmology

• observable universe

  • hydrogen line

• QCD cosmology

• cosmic reionization

• cosmic structure formation

• cosmological constant, dark energy

  • Witten's Dark Fantasy

• cosmic inflation

  • Starobinsky model of cosmic inflation

  • eternal inflation

    • false vacuum eternal inflation

  • chaotic inflation

  • multiverse

• cosmic microwave background radiation

• dark matter, fuzzy dark matter

• cosmic topology, cosmic electromagnetism

• quantum cosmology, quantum gravity

• Randall-Sundrum model

• intersecting D-brane model cosmology

• brane gas cosmology

• ekpyrotic cosmology

• string theory FAQ – Does string theory tell us anything about cosmology?

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)

With 11D supergravity via its E10-sigma-model formulation:

• Axel Kleinschmidt, Hermann Nicolai: $E_{10}$ Cosmology, JHEP 01 (2006) 137 [arXiv:hep-th/0511290, doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2006/01/137]

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)

String Cosmology

On cosmological models inspired (at least) by string theory:

• Michele Cicoli, Joseph P. Conlon, Anshuman Maharana, Susha Parameswaran, Fernando Quevedo, Ivonne Zavala: String Cosmology: from the Early Universe to Today, Physics Reports 1059 (2024) 1-155 [arXiv:2303.04819, doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2024.01.002]

M-cosmology

On non-perturbative string theoretic cosmology (and the Brandenberger-Vafa mechanism) via the BFSS/IKKT matrix model:

• Suddhasattwa Brahma, Robert Brandenberger, Samuel Laliberte: Emergent Cosmology from Matrix Theory, J. High Energ. Phys. 2022 67 (2022) [arXiv:2107.11512, doi:10.1007/JHEP03(2022)067]

• Suddhasattwa Brahma, Robert Brandenberger, Samuel Laliberte: Emergent Early Universe Cosmology from BFSS Matrix Theory, International Journal of Modern Physics D 31 14 (2022) 2242004 [arXiv:2205.06016, doi:10.1142/S0218271822420044]

• Suddhasattwa Brahma, Robert Brandenberger, Samuel Laliberte: Emergent Metric Space-Time from Matrix Theory, J. High Energ. Phys. 2022 31 (2022) [arXiv:2206.12468, doi:10.1007/JHEP09(2022)031]

• Suddhasattwa Brahma, Robert Brandenberger, Samuel Laliberte: BFSS Matrix Model Cosmology: Progress and Challenges, Physics 5 1 (2023) [arXiv:2210.07288, doi:10.3390/physics5010001]

• Robert Brandenberger: Emergent Metric Space-Time from the BFSS Matrix Model, talk at Perimeter Institute (May 2023) [doi:10.48660/23050109, video:pirsa:23050109, slides:pdf]

• Robert Brandenberger, Julia Pasiecznik: On the Origin of the $SO(9) \to SO(3) \times SO(6)$ Symmetry Breaking in the IKKT Matrix Model [arXiv:2409.00254, spire:2824186]

See also at IKKT matrix model – References – Computer simulation.