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The cosmological properties of axions are reviewed. We discuss the axions produced by thermal processes in the early universe, the evolution of the average axion field between the Peccei-Quinn and QCD phase-transitions, the domain-wall problem and its possible resolutions, the population of cold axions produced by vacuum realignment, string decay and domain wall decay, and, finally, axion miniclusters and axion isocurvature perturbations.
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Sikivie, P. (2008). Axion Cosmology. In: Kuster, M., Raffelt, G., Beltrán, B. (eds) Axions. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 741. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73518-2_2
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