Dark Energy and the Formation of the Large Scale Structure of the Universe

This thesis presents several significant new results that shed light on two major puzzles of modern cosmology: the nature of inflation, the very early phase of the universe that is thought to have given rise to the large-scale structures that we observe today; and that of the current accelerated exp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gleyzes, Jérôme (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Series:Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Effective Field Theory of Dark Energy
  • Beyond Horndeski
  • Predictions for Primordial Tensor Modes
  • Consistency Relations of the Large Scale Structure
  • Conclusion.