micomaco86572 Messages 54 Reaction score 0 Thread starter Oct 30, 2009 #1 Could someone recommend some papers or books on Inflation? I know nothing about it, so I need some accessible ones. Thx.
Could someone recommend some papers or books on Inflation? I know nothing about it, so I need some accessible ones. Thx.
cristo Staff Emeritus Science Advisor Messages 8,145 Reaction score 75 Oct 30, 2009 #2 How about http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9901124 or http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.5424 ? Last edited by a moderator: Apr 24, 2017
mikeph Messages 1,229 Reaction score 18 Oct 30, 2009 #4 I really like Liddle's work... I pretty much worshipped his textbook when first learning cosmology. It's sort of a shame he's formatted it with such wide margins, 36 pages is a lot to print! I guess that's LaTeX for you.
I really like Liddle's work... I pretty much worshipped his textbook when first learning cosmology. It's sort of a shame he's formatted it with such wide margins, 36 pages is a lot to print! I guess that's LaTeX for you.
jnorman Messages 315 Reaction score 0 Oct 30, 2009 #5 I think you would want to start with Alan Guth's book, The Inflationary Universe.
cristo Staff Emeritus Science Advisor Messages 8,145 Reaction score 75 Oct 30, 2009 #6 jnorman said: I think you would want to start with Alan Guth's book, The Inflationary Universe. That's a popular science book though, isn't it? I gathered that the OP wanted to learn about inflation as a physicist, and not as a layperson.
jnorman said: I think you would want to start with Alan Guth's book, The Inflationary Universe. That's a popular science book though, isn't it? I gathered that the OP wanted to learn about inflation as a physicist, and not as a layperson.