Three Advanced Lectures on Inflation

Abstract

Lecture notes on inflation. The lectures are three double lectures, held for the first time at the Nordita Winter School 2024 - Particle Physics and Cosmology, covering an advanced introduction to the theory of primordial inflation, as well as the linear and non-linear perturbation theory of slow-roll inflation/quasi-de Sitter spacetimes.

Comments: 53 pages, 40 figures. Lectures first delivered at the "Nordita Winter School 2024 - Particle Physics and Cosmology", Stockholm, 15-26 January 2024