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Lectures on classical and quantum cosmology

@inproceedings{Calcagni2022LecturesOC,
  title={Lectures on classical and quantum cosmology},
  author={Gianluca Calcagni and Maria Grazia Di Luca and Tom'avs Fodran},
  year={2022}
}
These lecture notes introduce the reader to the hot big bang model, cosmological perturbations, gravitational waves, the cosmic microwave background, inflation, the singularity problem, the cosmological constant problem and the cosmology of quantum gravity. 
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