| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 552 pages) : illustrations |
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| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notation, units and conventions; 1 A short review of standard and inflationary cosmology; 2 The basic string cosmology equations; 3 Conformal invariance and string effective actions; 4 Duality symmetries and cosmological solutions; 5 Inflationary kinematics; 6 The string phase; 7 The cosmic background of relic gravitational waves; 8 Scalar perturbations and the anisotropy of the CMB radiation; 9 Dilaton phenomenology; 10 Elements of brane cosmology; References; Index. |
| Summary |
Self-contained, pedagogical introduction to string cosmology for astrophysicists and high-energy physicists. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
String models.
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String models. |
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Cosmology.
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Cosmology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gasperini, Maurizio. Elements of string cosmology. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, ©2007 9780521868754 0521868750 (OCoLC)124025612 |
| ISBN |
9780511335457 (electronic book) |
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0511335458 (electronic book) |
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9780511332296 (electronic book ; Adobe Digital Editions) |
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0511332297 (electronic book ; Adobe Digital Editions) |
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0511334273 |
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9780511334276 |
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0511334877 (electronic book) |
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9780511334870 (electronic book) |
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9786611040512 |
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661104051X |
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0521868750 (Cloth) |
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9780521868754 (hardback) |
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