The physical universe : the interface between cosmology, astrophysics and particle physics : proceedings of the XII Autumn School of Physics held at Lisbon, Portugal, 1-5 October 1990

Meant as a review for students of astrophysics and particle physics, this book contains a selection of survey articles and seminar reports on "high energy cosmology". Included are contributions on topics ranging from classical cosmology, large scale structure, and primordial nucleosynthesis to quantum cosmology, covering both the theoretical aspects and the most important observations. Gravitation and hot big-bang cosmology....Pages 1-20 Euclideanized Einstein-Yang-Mills equations, wormholes and the ground-state wave function of a radiation dominated Universe....Pages 21-38 Experiments with neutrinos....Pages 39-46 Topological defects in the early universe....Pages 47-101 The space telescope and the problems of cosmology....Pages 102-109 Self-gravitating magnetic monopoles, global monopoles and black holes....Pages 110-133 Understanding large-scale cosmic structure....Pages 134-158 Metric space as a model of spacetime: Classical theory and quantization....Pages 159-173 Galaxy formation — An update....Pages 174-196 The hypothesis of the expansion of the universe and the global tests....Pages 197-226 The early universe behaviour with non-minimal coupling....Pages 227-236 Stability of compactification in Einstein-Yang-Mills theories....Pages 237-252 Multivariate analysis and pattern recognition methods: A short review and some current directions....Pages 253-264 Cooling of neutron stars....Pages 265-274 Experiments in high energy physics: A brief introduction....Pages 275-280 Nucleosynthesis in big-bang models....Pages 281-291 The cosmological constant, third quantization and all that....Pages 292-304 Structure of the inflationary universe....Pages 305-312 A collection of survey articles and seminar reports on "high energy cosmology" which introduces students of astrophysics and particle physics to modern research on the early universe. Proceedings of the XII Autumn School of Physics Held at Lisbon, Portugal, 1-5 October 1990 Barrow, J.D.; Henriques, A.B.; Lago, M.T.V.T.; Longair, M.S. (Eds.)