1994/12/05 by D. S. Salopek, Salopek, D. S.
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #astro-ph #gr-qc #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9412012
Corrected version (Latex bugs removed), 34 pages, RevTex using Latex 2.09, Hard copy figures will be sent upon request. (To appear in Proceedings of the International School of Astrophysics ``D. Chalonge'' Third Course: Current Topics in Astrofundamental Physics Erice, Italy, September 4-16, 1994 Edited by N. Sanchez (Kluwer Academic Publishers))
openalex publication_date 1994/12/05 · arxiv created 1994/12/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Cosmological inflation provides the simplest and most promising mechanism for generating fluctuations for structure formation. Using powerful Hamilton-Jacobi methods, I will describe (1) how to compute density fluctuations and cosmic microwave anisotropies arising from inflation, and (2) improvements of the Zel'dovich approximation describing gravitational collapse. I compare these results with the latest cosmological observations.