1996/01/24 by J. A. Peacock, Peacock, J. A.
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/9601135
Lectures given at the EADN summer school "The structure of the universe", Leiden, July 1995. 77 pages TeX with macros included. Postscript figures from ftp://ftp.roe.ac.uk/pub/jap/leiden/
arxiv created 1996/01/24 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
These lectures cover the basics of inflationary models for the early universe, concentrating particularly on the generation of density fluctuations from scalar-field dynamics. The subsequent gravitational dynamics of these fluctuations in dark matter in a Friedmann model are described, leading to a review of the current situation in confronting inflationary models with the latest data on the clustering of galaxies and other measures of large-scale structure.