Aspects of Today´s Cosmology

preface_ Aspects of Today´s Cosmology......Page 1
Part 1......Page 13
01_Warm Inflationary Universe Models......Page 15
Part 2......Page 39
02_The Strained State Cosmology......Page 41
03_Introduction to Modified Gravity:\rFrom the Cosmic Speedup Problem to\rQuantum Gravity Phenomenology......Page 61
04_Duration, Systems and Cosmology......Page 87
05_Revised Concepts for Cosmic Vacuum Energy\rand Binding Energy: Innovative Cosmology......Page 107
Part 3......Page 133
06_Doubts About Big Bang Cosmology......Page 135
07_Applications of Nash’s Theorem to Cosmology......Page 145
08_Modeling Light Cold Dark Matter......Page 165
Part 4......Page 183
09_Higher Dimensional Cosmological Model of the\rUniverse with Variable Equation of State\rParameter in the Presence of G and Λ......Page 185
10_Cosmological Bianchi Class A Models in\rSáez-Ballester Theory......Page 197
11_A New Cosmological Model......Page 217
12_ C-Field Cosmological Model for Barotropic\rFluid Distribution with Variable\rGravitational Constant......Page 239
Part 5......Page 249
13_Separation and Solution of Spin 1 Field Equation\rand Particle Production in\rLemaître-Tolman-Bondi Cosmologies......Page 251
14_On the Dilaton Stabilization by Matter......Page 265
15_A Polytropic Solution of the Expanding\rUniverse – Constraining Relativistic\rand Non-Relativistic Matter Densities\rUsing Astronomical Results......Page 297
16_Loop Quantum Cosmology: Effective Theory\rand Related Applications......Page 317
17_Singularities and Thermodynamics of Geodesic\rSurface Congruences......Page 359
18_Cosmology: The Noncommutative Quantum\rand Classical Cosmology......Page 377
Part 6......Page 395
19 Small-Bang versus Big-Bang Cosmology......Page 397