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Inflation: basics
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The Inflationary Paradigm - Lecture 1
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- 1 The Inflationary Paradigm Lecture 1
- 2 Inflation
- 3 Topics Covered
- 4 Inflation: basics
- 5 The FRW light cone
- 6 Dynamics of FRW Space
- 7 The cosmic cocktail: matter
- 8 The cosmic cocktail: radiation
- 9 The cosmic cocktail: vacuum
- 10 History of the universe: abridged
- 11 Alfonso X of Castile r. 1252-84 on the Ptolemaic system
- 12 Looking out in space is looking back in time
- 13 History of the universe: abridged
- 14 Primordial perturbations
- 15 The horizon problem
- 16 Vacuum energy and inflation
- 17 The cosmic horizon
- 18 Curvature
- 19 Inflation solves the horizon problem
- 20 Symmetry breaking: an analogy
- 21 Symmetry breaking and vacuum energy
- 22 Scalar fields and stress energy
- 23 Exercise
- 24 Equation of motion
- 25 Slow roll
- 26 Q&A
