Symmetry and Problems in Modern Cosmology
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2021) | Viewed by 11143
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Interests: quantum theory; gravity, cosmology; dark energy problem; black holes physics (quantum aspects)
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Dear Colleague,
The notion of '''symmetry'' is fundamental for the whole theoretical physics. Modern cosmology, which is based on gravity, quantum theory, thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics, is no exception. In the recent decades, cosmology has stopped being a pure theoretical science, acquiring the experimental status as a result of the data obtained by means of WMAP, Hubble Space Telescope, Planck Space Observatory, and so on. Besides, considering that the potentialities for energy increase of modern and future colliders are rather limited, experimental studies for a high-energy physics are becoming increasingly prominent in cosmology in an effort to establish the «new physics», beyond the Standard Model.
Taking this into account, in experimental cosmology, a model of Lambda-Cold Dark Matter naturally becomes a problem of top priority, especially in regard to the selection of the adequate inflation scenario and to solutions of the Dark-Energy and Dark-Matter problems. It is hard to overestimate the role of symmetry as an instrument for studies in this context, on the one hand, because symmetry is an important component of the corresponding mathematical apparatus and, on the other hand, because, on the basis of theoretical calculations and experimental data, it logically limits the choice of solutions in cases when such a choice is too large.
Prof. Dr. Alexander Shalyt-Margolin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Lambda-CDM model
- quantum cosmology
- loop quantum cosmology
- inflation models
- cyclic models
- dark-energy problem
- dark-matter problem
- large-scale structure of the universe
- experimental measurements of cosmological parameters
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