Gauge Theory and the Early Universe: Nato Science Series C:, cartea 248

Gauge Theory and the Early Universe.- Toward the Inflationary Paradigm: Lectures on Inflationary Cosmology.- The Problem of Origin of the Primordial Cosmological Perturbations.- Galaxy Formation in Cold Dark Matter Dominated Universes: Observational Tests.- Phenomenology and Cosmology with Superstring Motivated Models.- Monopoles and Axions in an Inflationary Universe.- Cosmic Information and the “anthropic” Principle.- Trends in the Astrophysics of Light Elements: Cosmology and Stellar Physics.- The Consistency Problems of Large Scale Structure, Dark Matter, and Galaxy Formation.- Cosmolgy and Extra Dimensions.- Anisotropy Measurements of the Microwave Background.- Strange Matter in the Universe.- An Experimental Search for Galactic Axions.- R2 Inflation.- On the Effective Evolution Equation of the Scalar Field in the New Inflationary Universe.- Constrainta on the Geometry of the 5th Dimension in Cosmological Solutions of Five Dimensional Relativity in Vacuum.- Recent Developments in Quantum Cosmology.- A No-Hair Theorem for Inhomogeneous Cosmologies.- Constraints on Algebraically Extended Theories of Gravity.- On Kaluza-Klein Theories.- The Intergalactic Medium.- Relations Between Astronomical Parameters for the Universe with Cosmological Constant and Radiation Pressure.