Lectures on classical and quantum cosmology

• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2202.13875
• Publication Date: 2022-11-23
• Authors: Calcagni, Gianluca; Di Luca, Maria Gr...; Fodran, Tomás
• Keywords: High Energy Physics - Theory; Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th); 0103 physical sciences; FOS: Physical sciences; General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); 01 natural sciences; General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology; Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

64 pages. Lecture notes of the Corfu Summer Institute 2021 "School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity", 29 August - 9 October 2021, Corfu, Greece. v2: plots updated, minor typos corrected, references added; v3: further minor typos corrected<br/>These lecture notes introduce the reader to the hot big bang model, cosmological perturbations, gravitational waves, the cosmic microwave background, inflation, the singularity problem, the cosmological constant problem and the cosmology of quantum gravity.<br/>