Introduction to Cosmological Models

by bob jantzen  [January, March, May 1988]

University of Rome "La Sapienza", Dipartimento di Fisica, Corso di Fisica Teorico (Ruffini)

Five part notes from lectures given in 3 separate visits.

• Part I: orthogonal coordinates on flat or constant curvature manifolds with metric, FRW geometry, simplest spacetime splittings, Gaussian normal coords, intrinsic and extrinsic curvature (January 1988)
  (icm1.pdf: 37 pages, 1.163 MEG)
• Part II: Symmetries and Lie groups (March 1988)
  (icm2.pdf: 29 pages, 731K)
• Part III: Differential geometry, classical mechanics, matrix groups, rigid body dynamics
  (icm3.pdf: 23 pages, 883K)
• Part IV: Fiber bundles, gauge groups (May 1988)
  (icm4.pdf: 20 pages, 663K)
• Part V: Anisotropic cosmological models, gravitational dynamics (May 1988)
  (icm5.pdf: 7 pages, 222K)