There is almost universal agreement among astronomers that most of the mass in the
Universe and most of the mass in the Galactic halo is dark. Many lines of reasoning suggest …

The outstanding problem in cosmology today is undoubtedly the origin and evolution of
large scale structure. In this context, no model has proved as successful as the standard …

This authoritative volume shows how modern dynamical systems theory can help us in
understanding the evolution of cosmological models. It also compares this approach with …

A straightforward method is presented for the construction of constrained realizations of
Gaussian fields, considering a Gaussian random field and its ensemble mean field, given a …

We review the quantitative science that can be and has been done with redshift and peculiar
velocity surveys of galaxies in the nearby universe. After a brief background setting the …

We analyse the implications for inflationary models of the cosmic microwave background
(CMB) anisotropy measured by COBE. Vacuum fluctuations during inflation generate an …

▪ Abstract Cosmic structure has formed as a result of gravitational amplification of primordial
density fluctuations together with the action of other physical processes (adiabatic gas …

The peculiar velocity field offers a unique way to probe dark matter density field on large
scales at low redshifts. In this work, we have compiled a new sample of 465 peculiar …

We show that the polarization of the cosmic microwave background can be used to detect
gravity waves from inflation if the energy scale of inflation is above 2× 10 15 GeV. These …

It is argued that the main quantity of interest in chaotic inflation is the cosmological
expansion rate H expressed as a function of the inflaton field φ. We derive a general …