# nLab standard model of cosmology

## Surveys, textbooks and lecture notes

#### Gravity

gravity, supergravity

# Contents

## Idea

The standard model (in theoretical physics) for the observable universe on the largest length scales of cosmology:

an inflationary FRW spacetime with cosmological constant and cold dark matter.

The current model assumes that the energy density of the observable universe consists of

standard model of particle physics and cosmology

theory:Einstein-Yang-Mills-Dirac-Higgs
gravityelectroweak and strong nuclear forcefermionic matterscalar field
field content:vielbein field $e$principal connection $\nabla$spinor $\psi$scalar field $H$
Lagrangian:scalar curvature densityfield strength squaredDirac operator component densityfield strength squared + potential density
$L=$$R\left(e\right)\mathrm{vol}\left(e\right)+$$⟨{F}_{\nabla }\wedge {\star }_{e}{F}_{\nabla }⟩+$$\left(\psi ,{D}_{\left(e,\nabla \right)}\psi \right)\mathrm{vol}\left(e\right)+$$\nabla \overline{H}\wedge {\star }_{e}\nabla H+\left(\lambda {\mid H\mid }^{4}-{\mu }^{2}{\mid H\mid }^{2}\right)\mathrm{vol}\left(e\right)$

## References

A review is in

• Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota, George Smoot, Cosmology today – A brief review (2011)(arXiv:1107.1789)

A discussion of open problems is in

• Benoit Famaey, Stacy McGaugh, Challenges for Lambda-CDM and MOND (arXiv:1301.0623)

A mathematically precise account of the model in terms of AQFT on curved spacetimes is in