Modern Theoretical and Observational Cosmology
Subtitle: Proceedings of the 2nd Hellenic Cosmology Meeting, held in the National Observatory of Athens, Penteli, 19-20 April 2001
By: edited by Manolis Plionis, Spiros Cotsakis
Contributors: Cotsakis, Spiros
Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 0067-0057 -- 276; Astrophysics and space science library -- 276.
Publisher: Springer Netherlands; Imprint; Springer
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9789401006224
Other titles: Proceedings of the second Hellenic Cosmology Meeting, held in the National Observatory of Athens (Penteli, 19-20 April 2001)
Description: The collection of presentations in this volume represents a satisfying balance between the rich subjects into which cosmology has matured over the past decades. First, the contributions of the `Architects' discuss fundamental cosmology, focusing on the topology and geometry of our Universe and the fundamental physical laws and processes in the Very Early Universe. Next, the `Constructors' discuss the ultimate realization of the cosmic framework with the recent determinations of the cosmological parameters which characterize the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metric. Finally, the `Interior Decorators' take care of the cosmic infrastructure, some concentrating on the work of gravity, some responsible for the formation of the megaparsec cosmic structure while others are heroically trying to combine gravitational, hydrodynamic, radiative, stellar, and a variety of other dissipative processes into a courageous attempt towards understanding the lights in the cosmos.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Theoretical Cosmology; title: Current Trends in Mathematical Cosmology; title: Casimir Effect Contribution to the Cosmological Constant; title: Masses of Cosmological Structures; title: Geometrical Aspects of Cosmic Magnetic Fields; title: Galactic Magnetic Field as a consequence of Inflation; title: Relaxation of the Cosmological Principle; title: A Note on Wavemap-Tensor Cosmologies; title: Inflation in String Theory and how you can get out of it; title: Quantum Cosmology for the General Bianchi Vacuum Geometries; title: Black Hole Entropy, Topological Entropy, Baum-Connes Conjecture; title: Observational Cosmology. Froth across the Universe; title: Cosmological Parameters; title: Forming Counterrotating Galaxies; title: Cosmological Parameters from the Clustering of AGN; title: Large-Scale Environmental Effects of the Cluster Distribution; title: Scale Dependence of Dark Energy Antigravity; title: Probing the Evolution of Galaxies using Redshifted Halpha Emission; title: Gas in the Universe; title: Summary; title: Report to Anaximander.