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The asteroseismic data obtained by the CoRoT and Kepler satellites have recently provided pulsation properties for thousands of red giants, that can add new important constraints to the evolutionary models of this important class of stellar objects. A brief review of the structure and evolution of red giant stars is presented, with emphasis on the major open problems.
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I wish to thank the organizers for their invitation and financial support, Santi Cassisi and Achim Weiss for numerous enlightening discussions and collaborative work on red giant stellar models.
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Salaris, M. (2012). Evolution and Internal Structure of Red Giants. In: Miglio, A., Montalbán, J., Noels, A. (eds) Red Giants as Probes of the Structure and Evolution of the Milky Way. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18418-5_5
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