Gauge Theory and the Early Universe

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Gauge Theory and the Early Universe....Pages 1-4
Toward the Inflationary Paradigm: Lectures on Inflationary Cosmology....Pages 5-69
The Problem of Origin of the Primordial Cosmological Perturbations....Pages 71-98
Galaxy Formation in Cold Dark Matter Dominated Universes: Observational Tests....Pages 99-118
Phenomenology And Cosmology With Superstring Motivated Models....Pages 119-148
Monopoles and Axions in an Inflationary Universe....Pages 149-158
Cosmic Information and the “Anthropic” Principle....Pages 159-191
Trends in the Astrophysics of Light Elements: Cosmology and Stellar Physics....Pages 193-210
The Consistency Problems of Large Scale Structure, Dark Matter, and Galaxy Formation....Pages 211-224
Cosmology and Extra Dimensions....Pages 225-256
Anisotropy Measurements of the Microwave Background....Pages 257-282
Strange Matter in the Universe....Pages 283-293
An Experimental Search for Galactic Axions....Pages 295-300
 R 2 Inflation....Pages 301-307
On the Effective Evolution Equation of the Scalar Field in the New Inflationary Universe....Pages 309-318
Constraints on the Geometry of the 5th dimension in cosmological solutions of Five dimensional Relativity in vacuum....Pages 319-326
Recent Developments in Quantum Cosmology....Pages 327-341
A No-hair Theorem for Inhomogeneous Cosmologies....Pages 343-352
Constraints on Algebraically Extended Theories of Gravity....Pages 353-360
On Kaluza-Klein Theories....Pages 361-365
The Intergalactic Medium....Pages 367-371
Relations between Astronomical Parameters for the Universe with Cosmological Constant and Radiation Pressure....Pages 373-382