English

Imprint of spatial curvature on inflation power spectrum

Astrophysics 2008-11-26 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

If the universe had a large curvature before inflation there is a deviation from the scale invariant perturbations of the inflaton at the beginning of inflation. This may have some effect on the CMB anisotropy at large angular scales. We calculate the density perturbations for both open and closed universe cases using the Bunch-Davies vacuum condition on the initial state. We use our power spectrum to calculate the temperature anisotropy spectrum and compare the results with the WMAP three year data. We find that our power spectrum gives a lower quadrupole anisotropy when Ω1>0\Omega-1 >0, but matches the temperature anisotropy calculated from the standard Ratra-Peebles power spectrum at large ll. The determination of spatial curvature from temperature anisotropy data is not much affected by the different power spectra which arise from the choice of different boundary conditions for the inflaton perturbation.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0609349,
  title  = {Imprint of spatial curvature on inflation power spectrum},
  author = {Eduard Masso and Subhendra Mohanty and Akhilesh Nautiyal and Gabriel Zsembinszki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0609349},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

17 pages, 4 figures, revtex4; section on comparison with WMAP3 data added