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gravitational lensing II  The Cosmic Microwave Radiation Background
  1. Discovery of the Radiation

  2. Recombination and Last Scattering

  3. The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect

  4. Anisotropies

III  The Early Universe
  1. The Radiation-Dominated Era

  2. Cosmological Nucleosynthesis

  3. Baryon and Lepton Synthesis

  4. Massive Relic Particles

  5. Relic Axions

  6. Relic Gravitinos

IV  Inflation
  1. Cosmological Puzzles

  2. Old Inflation

  3. New Inflation

  4. Chaotic Inflation

  5. Anthropic Considerations

V  General Theory of Cosmological Fluctuations
  1. Field Equations for Linear Perturbations

  2. Choosing a Gauge

  3. Fluctuations Beyond the Horizon

VI  Evolution of Cosmological Fluctuations
  1. Quantum Fluctuations During Inflation

  2. Perturbations Before Last Scattering

  3. Anisotropies in the Microwave Background

  4. The Growth of Structure



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