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Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker Cosmology

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Presented is a discussion of homogeneous and isotropic cosmologies described by the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (GlossaryTerm

FLRW

) metric. The cosmological models provide the framework within which astronomical observations of the Hubble expansion, cosmic microwave background radiation and primordial nucleosynthesis can be described. I present simple cosmological solutions of the Einstein equations in the case of vacuum spacetimes, radiation and dust, and discuss how an accelerated expansion (inflation) can solve some problems of the hot big bang model. In particular I discuss inhomogeneous perturbations about the GlossaryTerm

FLRW

background and how inflationary cosmology provides a model for the origin and evolution of structure in our Universe.

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Abbreviations

CMB:

cosmic microwave background

COBE:

Cosmic Background Explorer

FLRW:

Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker

SKA:

Square-Kilometer Array

WMAP:

Wilkinson microwave anisotropy probe

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Wands, D. (2014). Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker Cosmology. In: Ashtekar, A., Petkov, V. (eds) Springer Handbook of Spacetime. Springer Handbooks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41992-8_30

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