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1、PHYSICALFOUNDATIONSOFCOSMOLOGYInflationarycosmologyhasbeendevelopedoverthelast20yearstoremedyseriousshortcomingsinthestandardhotbigbangmodeloftheuniverse.Takinganoriginalapproach,thistextbookexplainsthebasisofmoderncosmologyandshowswherethetheoreticalresultscomefrom.Thebooki
2、sdividedintotwoparts:thefirstdealswiththehomogeneousandisotropicmodeloftheuniverse,whilethesecondpartdiscusseshowinitialinhomo-geneitiescanexplaintheobservedstructureoftheuniverse.Analyticaltreatmentsoftraditionallyhighlynumericaltopics–suchasprimordialnucleosynthesis,re-com
3、binationandcosmicmicrowavebackgroundanisotropy–areprovided,andinflationandquantumcosmologicalperturbationtheoryarecoveredingreatde-tail.Thereaderisbroughttothefrontiersofcurrentcosmologicalresearchbythediscussionofmorespeculativeideas.Thisisanidealtextbookbothforadvancedstud
4、entsofphysicsandastrophysicsandforthosewithaparticularinterestintheoreticalcosmology.Nearlyeveryformulainthebookisderivedfrombasicphysicalprinciplescoveredinundergrad-uatecourses.Eachchapterincludesallnecessarybackgroundmaterialandnopriorknowledgeofgeneralrelativityandquant
5、umfieldtheoryisassumed.ViatcheslavMukhanovisProfessorofPhysicsandHeadoftheAs-troparticlePhysicsandCosmologyGroupattheDepartmentofPhysics,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit¨atM¨unchen,Germany.FollowinghisPh.D.attheMoscowPhysical-TechnicalInstitute,heconductedresearchattheInstitutef
6、orNuclearResearch,Moscow,between1982and1991.From1992,hewasalectureratEidgen¨ossischeTechnischeHochschule(ETH)inZ¨urich,Switzerland,untilhisap-pointmentatLMUin1997.Hiscurrentresearchinterestsincludecosmicmicrowavebackgroundfluctuations,inflationarymodels,stringcosmology,thecos
7、mologicalconstantproblem,darkenergy,quantumandclassicalblackholes,andquantumcosmology.Healsoservesontheeditorialboardsofleadingresearchjournalsintheseareas.In1980–81,ProfessorMukhanovandG.Chibisovdiscoveredthatquantumfluctuationscouldberesponsibleforthelarge-scalestructureof
8、theuniverse.Theycalculatedthespectrumoffluctuationsinamodelwithaquasi-exponentialst