Inflation and the Theory of Cosmological Perturbations

Abstract

These lectures provide a pedagogical introduction to inflation and the theory of cosmological perturbations generated during inflation which are thought to be the origin of structure in the universe.

Comments: 77 pages, 9 figures. Lectures delivered at the "ICTP Summer School on Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology", Trieste, 17 June - 5 July 2002. Many typos corrected, short sections added on non-Gaussianity and symmetries of dS, references added