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Vignettes in gravitation and cosmology /

This book comprises expository articles on different aspects of gravitation and cosmology that are aimed at graduate students. The topics discussed are of contemporary interest assuming only an elementary introduction to gravitation and cosmology. The presentations are to a certain extent pedagogica...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Sriramkumar, L., Seshadri, T. R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Singapore : World Scientific, 2012.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Non-linear gravitational clustering in an expanding universe / Jasjeet Singh Bagla
  • 2. Dark ages and cosmic reionization / Tirthankar Roy Choudhury
  • 3. Probing fundamental constant evolution with redshifted spectral lines / Nissim Kanekar
  • 4. Averaging the inhomogeneous universe / Aseem Paranjape
  • 5. Signals of cosmic magnetic fields from the cosmic microwave background radiation / T.R. Seshadri
  • 6. Quantum corrections to Bekenstein-Hawking entropy / S. Shankaranarayanan
  • 7. Quantum measurement and quantum gravity: many worlds or collapse of the wave function? / T.P. Singh
  • 8. On the generation and evolution of perturbations during inflation and reheating / L. Sriramkumar
  • 9. Patterns in neural processing / Sunu Engineer
  • Articles co-authored by the contributors with T. Padmanabhan.