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1、ThispageintentionallyleftblankTHEPRIMORDIALDENSITYPERTURBATIONCosmology,InflationandtheOriginofStructureTheoriginandevolutionoftheprimordialperturbationisthekeytounderstandingstructureformationintheearlieststagesoftheUniverse.Itcarriescluestothetypesofphysicalphenomenaac
2、tiveinthatextremehigh-densityenvironment.Throughitsevolution,generatingfirsttheobservedcosmicmicrowavebackgroundanisotropiesandlaterthedistributionofgalaxiesanddarkmatterintheUniverse,itprobesthepropertiesanddynamicsofthepresentUniverse.Thisgraduate-leveltextbookgivesath
3、oroughaccountoftheoreticalcosmologyandperturbationsintheearlyUniverse,describingtheirobservationalconsequencesandshowinghowtorelatesuchobservationstoprimordialphysicalprocesses,par-ticularlycosmologicalinflation.Withambitiousobservationalprogrammescom-plementingever-incr
4、easingsophisticationintheoreticalmodelling,cosmologicalstudieswillremainatthecuttingedgeofastrophysicalstudiesfortheforeseeablefuture.DavidH.LythisProfessorofParticleAstrophysicsinthePhysicsDepartmentofLancasterUniversity.AndrewR.LiddleisProfessorofAstrophysicsintheDepa
5、rtmentofPhysicsandAstronomyattheUniversityofSussex.Theyhavealong-establishedresearchcollaborationandhavejointlydevelopedsomeofthekeyconceptsinstudiesofcosmologicalperturbations,particularlyinrelationtotheinflationarycosmology.Theypreviouslyco-authoredtheCambridgeUniversi
6、tyPresstextbookCosmolog-icalInflationandLarge-ScaleStructurein2000.THEPRIMORDIALDENSITYPERTURBATIONCosmology,InflationandtheOriginofStructureDAVIDH.LYTHUniversityofLancasterANDREWR.LIDDLEUniversityofSussexCAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITYPRESSCambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown
7、,Singapore,SãoPauloCambridgeUniversityPressTheEdinburghBuilding,CambridgeCB28RU,UKPublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYorkwww.cambridge.orgInformationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521828499©D.LythandA.Liddle2009Thispublicationisincopyrig
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