2000/12/31 by Edmund Bertschinger, Bertschinger, Edmund · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0101009
25 pages, 2 eps figures. To appear in Proceedings of Cosmology 2000, Lisbon, July 2000
arxiv created 2000/12/31 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
These lecture notes discuss several topics in the physics of cosmic structure formation starting from the evolution of small-amplitude fluctuations in the radiation-dominated era. The topics include relativistic cosmological perturbation theory with the scalar-vector-tensor decomposition, the evolution of adiabatic and isentropic initial fluctuations, microwave background anisotropy, spatial and angular power spectra, the cold dark matter linear transfer function, Press-Schechter theory, and a brief introduction to numerical simulation methods.