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Based on lectures given to postgraduate students, this volume gathers contributions from a number of international scientists currently working in various research fields in cosmology. Of interest to students, researchers in relativity, gravitation, cosmology, and astrophysics.
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MODERN COSMOLOGY Studies in High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation Other books in the series Electron–Positron Physics at the Z M G Green, S L Lloyd, P N Ratoff and D R Ward Non-accelerator Particle Physics Paperback edition H V Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and A Staudt Ideas and Methods of Supersymmetry and Supergravity or A Walk Through Superspace Revised edition I L Buchbinder and S M Kuzenko Pulsars as Astrophysical Laboratories for Nuclear and Particle Physics F Weber Classical and Quantum Black Holes Edited by P Fr´e, V Gorini, G Magli and U Moschella Particle Astrophysics Revised paperback edition H V Klapdor-Kleingrothaus and K Zuber The World in Eleven Dimensions Supergravity, Supermembranes and M-Theory Edited by M J Duff Gravitational Waves Edited by I Ciufolini, V Gorini, U Moschella and P Fr´e MODERN COSMOLOGY Edited by Silvio Bonometto Department of Physics, University of Milan—Bicocca, Milan Vittorio Gorini and Ugo Moschella Department of Chemical, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Insubria at Como I NSTITUTE OF P HYSICS P UBLISHING B RISTOL AND P HILADELPHIA c IOP Publishing Ltd 2002 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Multiple copying is permitted in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency under the terms of its agreement with the Committee of Vice-Chancellors