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Can one hear the shape of the Universe?

Astrophysics 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

It is shown that the recent observations of NASA's explorer mission "Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe" (WMAP) hint that our Universe may possess a non-trivial topology. As an example we discuss the Picard space which is stretched out into an infinitely long horn but with finite volume.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0412407,
  title  = {Can one hear the shape of the Universe?},
  author = {R. Aurich and S. Lustig and F. Steiner and H. Then},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0412407},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages