School of 2017

Twentythird School: Wolfersdorf, 04. – 15.09.2017

funded by the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation

Lecture Program:

The instruction language is English.
Some lecture notes may appear later and will be made available here

Recommended Literature:

Banados:

1. arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1008.4744
2. arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1601.03616
3. arXiv:hep-th/9901148v3

Banados-1
Banados-2
Banados-3
Banados-4

Covi:

Kolb & Turner "The Early Universe" Westview Press
Dodelson "Modern Cosmology" Academic Press

the PDG Reviews on Astroparticle and Cosmology,
in particular the one on "Big Bang Cosmology" and "Dark Matter" on

http://pdg.lbl.gov/2017/mobile/reviews/index.html

de Boer:

Students who wish to do some preparation could e.g. read
-chapters 18,19,21 and 5 of
http://www.hartmanhep.net/topics2015/
-the first four chapters of
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.01287.pdf

Durrer:

Serone:

my lectures will be quite pedagogical and in principle all the background will be provided there.
Anyhow, some familiarity with the 3 references below would certainly be useful.

1) Zinn-Justin, “Quantum Field Theory and Critical Phenomena”, 4th Edition.
Chapters 39-43, in particular chapter 42.

2) Section 3 of E. Witten, “Analytic Continuation Of Chern-Simons Theory,’’ arXiv:1001.2933 [hep-th].

3) M. Serone, G. Spada and G. Villadoro, “The Power of Perturbation Theory,’’ arXiv:1702.04148 [hep-th].

The poster of the school of 2017.