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Therefore, a computational paradigm could be formulated as follows If C becomes negative under cr-control, study the stability of this state towards charge density perturbations. It is very possible that a phase transition to a nonuniform state appears. ... 

The step structure of as a function of rs is determined by factors of the form Hff(r3)P/p (r3) (see Eq. 88), each factor being approximately a constant if r3 is within atomic shell k. The contribution of this factor to the total function is governed by the constants Cfk describing the coupling of the density perturbation in shell k with an electron in shell i. These constants are largest if i = k. Figure 4 clearly displays the step structure of S, as a function of r3 in the region around T2 = 1 bohr. 

Huggins, J. W. and Carraway, K. L. 1976. Purification of plasma membranes from rat mammary gland by a density perturbation procedure. J. SupramoL Struct. 5, 59-63. 

Other estimates of the amount and of the distribution of DM in the universe come from the study of large scale structures at more recent epochs in the cosmic evolution. The reason why cosmic structures contain a record of the DM distribution in the universe is due to the fact that the evolution of the parent density perturbations was dominated by their DM content from early times on (see Peacock in these Proceedings). Thus the study of galaxies and galaxy clusters - the largest gravitationally bound structures in the universe whose potential wells are dominated by DM - provide information on both the amount of DM and on its density distribution. 

In its original formulation, inflation provided an explanation for the homogeneity and isotropy of the Universe (Guth 1981). It also explained why no heavy relics were observed in the Universe. Moreover, it was soon realized that for some unexpected reason, it could seed the density perturbations which gave birth to all the structures we observe in the Universe (Vilenkin 1982 Linde... 

We shall first review the (well-known) problems of the hot Big-Bang scenario in the next section. The we shall do a presentation of the inflationary mechanism, where we shall also introduce some important quantities the slow roll parameters (Section 7.3). In order to understand properly how inflation can seed density perturbations in the Universe, we shall then make an introduction to the problem of density perturbation in cosmology (Section 7.4). We shall then adapt this formalism to the inflationary situation where the Universe experiences a quasi-exponential expansion under the influence of a single scalar field (Section 7.5). The seeds for the cosmological perturbations (i.e. what we have to take as initial conditions when solving the perturbation equations are in fact the quantum fluctuations of this scalar field. We shall make a very brief introduction to this subject in Section 7.6. With all these tools we shall then compute the final spectrum (i.e., long after inflation) of the cosmological perturbations in Section 7.7. 

We have found useful to give here a complete derivation of the most important results (the production of density perturbations). A knowledge of general relativity and quantum field theory is of course welcome, but not completely necessary. There is a large number of review articles about inflation which should be useful for the readers who would like to study this topic further. We recommend (non exhaustively) the book by Linde (focused on the high-energy physics side) (Linde 1990), and the book by Liddle and Lyth (more focused on CMB in general) (Liddle Lyth) as well as the numerous references therein. 

Maybe the most annoying problem of the hot Big-Bang scenario is that it does not provide any explanation for the existence of structures in the Universe. It is well-known that structures can form through the Jeans instability only in a matter dominated era. However since the matter domination occurred quite recently in the history of the universe (around z 104, see Eq. (7.29)), one is forced to suppose that small density fluctuations already existed before that epoch. Since no efficient process is known to form density perturbations in a radiation-dominated universe, so one has to suppose that the seeds for the astrophysical objects we observe were part of the initial condition of the whole scenario. As we shall now see, the biggest success of inflation is to provide a simple explanation for the presence of such density perturbations, in addition to solving quite naturally the other problems. 

In 10.4,1 will discuss the evolution of density perturbations in an expanding Universe and in 10.5 the plasma oscillations thereby induced. In 10.6 I will introduce that statistical tools to describe the distribution of CMB tem-pertatures on the sky, and in 10.7 how the cosmological parameters influence the distribution of temperatures. Finally, in 10.8 I will briefly review how we actually analyze CMB data and conclude in 10.8. 

On scales larger than the horizon we need to use the full equations of General Relativity to determine the evolution of perturbations, and it is in this case that the lack of a fixed coordinate system is the most problematic. The evolution of density perturbations depends on the chosen coordinate system or gauge. For example, in the longitudinal or conformal-newtonian gauge, we can write the perturbed metric as... 

But any complete description of the evolution of perturbations in the universe will link all of these terms initial velocity and density perturbations to the various components (baryons, dark matter, photons) evolve prior to last scattering as discussed above, and so photon overdensities occur in potential wells, and velocity perturbations occur in response to gravitational and pressure forces. Indeed, to solve this problem in its most general form, we must resort to the Boltzmann equation. The Boltzmann equation gives the evolution of the distribution function, fi(xp,Pp) for a particle of species i with position Xp, and momentum p/(. In its most general form, the Boltzmann equation is formally... 

It is immediately apparent that (248) will give the correct zero-frequency xc potential value for Harmonic Potential Theorem motion. For this motion, the gas moves rigidly implying X is independent of r so that the compressive part, Hia, of the density perturbation from (245) is zero. Equally, for perturbations to a uniform electron gas, Vn and hence nn, is zero, so that (248) gives the uniform-gas xc kernel fxc([Pg.126]

Having pointed out that viscosity is the key quantity for the overall behavior and structure of the nebula, we must ask ourselves what is its origin. The first possibility is evidently particle viscosity. It can however be seen that in that case, the timescale for mass redistribution would be much longer than the age of the solar system itself. Lin (1981) has also pointed out that density perturbations could not grow into protoplanets because they could not accrete material beyond their immediate vicinity. 

To simplify discussion, I shall take the simplest kind of inflation model, called chaotic inflation [25], The inflaton potential is just a mass term, to 2/2, its mass rrif. taken to be 1013GeU to explain the right order of magnitude of the observed density perturbation 5p/p 10-6. This potential is then very flat at the Planck epoch of inflation. A notable feature of this inflaton oscillation is that the initial dimensionless amplitude is very large. The inflaton amplitude is gradually damped until the Hubble rate becomes comparable to... 

We characterize the adsorbed layer by a density perturbation response function ... 

It will be noted that a function analogous to ipz which arises in the shear viscosity, does not appear in the thermal conductivity. Its absence, of course, is due to the lack of second order surface harmonic perturbation of the radial distribution function g0m in the case of heat conduction. It may be anticipated that this difference in the form of the number density perturbation might lead to the thermal conductivity coefficient leaving a functional dependence on the temperature which is quite different from that of the shear viscosity coefficient. However, the exact temperature dependence of the two coefficients (Eqs. 42 and 47) has not yet been explored. 

Eisenschitz12 has calculated a cell probability density perturbation for viscous flow and thermal conduction using Brownian motion theory. The viscosity and thermal conductivity coefficients are then rewritten in terms of the displacement of the single molecule within the cell in place of intermolecular distances. The use of Brownian motion theory, however, leads to transport coefficients in terms of the frictional coefficient which again is not easy to evaluate. 

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