1st Edition

Cosmology in Gauge Field Theory and String Theory

By D. Bailin, Alexander Love Copyright 2004
328 Pages
by CRC Press

328 Pages
by CRC Press

Cosmology in Gauge Field Theory and String Theory focuses on the cosmological implications of the gauge theories of particle physics and of string theory. The book first examines the universe's series of phase transitions in which the successive gauge symmetries of the higher-temperature phase were spontaneously broken after the big bang, discussing relics of these phase transitions, more... Read more
1 The standard model of cosmology

2 Phase transitions in the early universe

3 Topological defects

4 Baryogenesis

5 Relic neutrinos and axions

6 Supersymmetric dark matter

7 Inflationary cosmology

8 Inflation in supergravity

9 Superstring cosmology

10 Black holes in string theory

Index

Biography

D. Bailin