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This book is a rigorous text for students in physics and mathematics requiring an introduction to the implications and interpretation of general relativity in areas of cosmology. Readers of this text will be well prepared to follow the theoretical developments in the field and undertake research projects as part of an MSc or PhD programme.
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General relativity essentials
Black holes
Cosmology I: The expanding universe
Cosmology II: the inflationary Universe
Quantum field theory on curved backgrounds, vacuum energy, and quantum gravity
Hawking radiation, the information paradox, and black hole thermodynamics
Appendix. Differential geometry primer