Wednesday, June 5, 2013

1306.0609 (Xingang Chen et al.)

Non-Bunch-Davies Anisotropy    [PDF]

Xingang Chen, Yi Wang
We introduce a generic mechanism that can extend the effects of relic anisotropies at the beginning of inflation to relatively much shorter scales in density perturbations. This is induced by non-Bunch-Davies states of the quantum fluctuations, and can show up in the non-oscillatory components of the density perturbations. This mechanism works for general forms of anisotropies, and, to illustrate it, we use an example of relic vector field. The detailed scale-dependence of these anisotropies can be used to probe the initial quantum state of our universe.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.0609

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