News:
Lectures
Prof. Dr. R. Verch
probably on Wednesdays, times and locations to be fixed
Scope
Mathematical cosmology is concerned with the part of cosmology (as a part of physics)
that can be described mathematically rigorously. This concerns the geometry of cosmological
spacetime models and the behaviour and stability of the differential equations governing
cosmological evolution. I will also try to indicate the arguments leading to the standard
cosmological model, and some sample results, like hydrogen/helium abundance, and indications
for dark matter and dark energy.
Recommended Literature:
G.F.R. Ellis, R. Maartens, M.A. MacCallum, Relativistic Cosmology, Cambridge UP, 2012
Y. Choquet-Bruhat, Introduction to Relativity, Black Holes and Cosmology, Oxford UP, 2015
