The early universe and observational cosmology. Papers from 5th Mexican school on gravitation and mathematical physics, Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico, November 24--29, 2002. (Q1889778)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Bretón, Nora; Cervantes-Cota, Jorge L.; Salgado, Marcelo}, Introduction to: The early universe and observational cosmology., 1-4 [Zbl 1067.83558] \textit{Cervantes-Cota, Jorge L.}, An introduction to standard cosmology, 7-51 [Zbl 1062.83002] \textit{Copeland, Edmund J.}, Inflation -- in the early universe and today, 53-107 [Zbl 1075.83040] \textit{Terrero-Escalante, César A.}, Cosmic acceleration, scalar fields, and observations, 109-125 [Zbl 1062.83582] \textit{Brandenberger, Robert H.}, Lectures on the theory of cosmological perturbations, 127-167 [Zbl 1207.83075] \textit{Tegmark, Max}, Measuring spacetime: from big bang to black holes, 169-189 [Zbl 1062.83534] \textit{Filippenko, Alexei V.}, The accelerating universe and dark energy: evidence from type Ia supernovae, 191-221 [Zbl 1066.85501] \textit{de la Macorra, Axel}, Quintessence and dark energy, 225-257 [Zbl 1066.85504] \textit{Germán, Gabriel; de la Macorra, Axel}, Quintessential inflation at the maxima of the potential, 259-271 [Zbl 1067.83562] \textit{Doran, Michael; Jaeckel, Joerg}, Quantum corrections to scalar quintessence potentials, 273-291 [Zbl 1062.83568] \textit{Piccinelli, Gabriella; Ayala, Alejandro}, Electroweak baryogenesis and primordial hypermagnetic fields, 293-308 [Zbl 1066.85502] \textit{Cabral-Rosetti, Luis G.; Hernández, Xavier; Sussman, Roberto A.}, Infering annihilation channels of neutralinos in galactic halos, 309-320 [Zbl 1066.85500] \textit{Maeda, Kei-ichi}, Brane world cosmology, 323-356 [Zbl 1071.83059] \textit{Lidsey, James E.}, Inflation and braneworlds, 357-379 [Zbl 1073.83051] \textit{Cordero, Rubén; Rojas, Efraín}, Creation of brane universes, 381-399 [Zbl 1067.83018] \textit{Matos, Tonatiuh; Ureña-López, Luis Arturo; Alcubierre, Miguel; Becerril, Ricardo; Guzmán, Francisco S.; Núñez, Darío}, The scalar field dark matter model: a braneworld connection, 401-420 [Zbl 1062.83573] \textit{Bojowald, Martin; Morales-Técotl, Hugo A.}, Cosmological applications of loop quantum gravity, 421-462 [Zbl 1062.83033]