The Early Universe: Facts and Fiction (Hardcover, 4, 2003. Corr. 2nd)

I. The Standard Big-Bang Model.- 1. The Cosmological Models.- 2. Facts - Observations of Cosmological Significance.- 3. Thermodynamics of the Early Universe in the Classical Hot Big-Bang Picture.- 4. Can the Standard Model Be Verified Experimentally?.- II. Particle Physics and Cosmology.- 5. Gauge Theories and the Standard Model.- 6. Grand Unification Schemes.- 7. Relic Particles from the Early Universe.- 8. Baryon Synthesis.- 9. The Inflationary Universe.- III. Dark Matter and Galaxy Formation.- 10. Typical Scales - From Observation and Theory.- 11. The Evolution of Small Perturbations.- 12. Non-linear Structure Formation.- A. The Gauge-Invariant Theory of Perturbations.- A.1 The "3+1" Formalism.- A.1.1 Unperturbed Solutions.- A.1.2 Small Perturbations.- A.3 Gauge-Invariant Variables.- A.4 Linearized Einstein Equations for Gauge-Invariant Variables.- A.5 The General Solution.- B. Recent Developments First Year Results from WMAP.- B.1 Temperature Anisotropies.- B.2 Polarization Signal.- References.