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Imprints of a Primordial Preferred Direction on the Microwave Background | | Lotty Ackerman
; Sean M. Carroll
; Mark B. Wise
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12 Jan 2007 | | Abstract: | Rotational invariance is a well-established feature of low-energy physics. Violations of this symmetry must be extremely small today, but could have been larger in earlier epochs. In this paper we examine the consequences of a small breaking of rotational invariance during the inflationary era when the primordial density fluctuations were generated. Assuming that a fixed-norm vector picked out a preferred direction during the inflationary era, we explore the imprint it would leave on the cosmic microwave background anisotropy, and provide explicit formulas for the expected amplitudes $<a_{lm}a_{l’m’}^*>$ of the spherical-harmonic coefficients. We suggest that it is natural to expect that the imprint on the primordial power spectrum of a preferred spatial direction is approximately scale-invariant, and examine a simple model in which this is true. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0701357 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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