Dark Energy

Produktbeschreibung

Introducing the theoretical ideas, observational methods and results, this textbook is a thorough introduction for graduate courses. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Overview; 2. Expansion history of the universe; 3. Correlation function and
power spectrum; 4. Basics of cosmological perturbation theory; 5. Observational
evidence of dark energy; 6. Cosmological constant; 7. Dark energy as a modified
form of matter I: quintessence; 8. Dark energy as a modified form of matter II;
9. Dark energy as a modification of gravity; 10. Cosmic acceleration without
dark energy; 11. Dark energy and linear cosmological perturbations; 12.
Non-linear cosmological perturbations; 13. Statistical methods in cosmology; 14.
Future observational constraints on the nature of dark energy; 15. Conclusion
and outlook; 16. Answers to the problems; 17. Mathematical appendix; Index. 

Autoreninfo

Luca Amendola is Professor of Physics at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He is also an astronomer at the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, Rome, and has authored more than 100 papers in international journals and conference proceedings.