PHYS 786Introduction to General Relativity with Applications to Cosmology
PHYS 786 as listed in the Winter 2025 Graduate Calendar. The main page has the current version, when it runs, and seats.
Introduction to the differential geometry of Lorentzian manifolds. The priniciples of general relativity. Causal structure and cosmological singularities. Cosmological space-times with Killing vector fields. Friedmann-Lemaitre cosmologies, scalar, vector and tensor perburbations in the linear and nonlinear regimes. De Sitter space-times and inflationary models.
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