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Imprints of anisotropic inflation on the cosmic microwave background

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2011-03-23 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study the imprints of anisotropic inflation on the CMB temperature fluctuations and polarizations. The statistical anisotropy stems not only from the direction dependence of curvature and tensor perturbations, but also from the cross correlation between curvature and tensor perturbations, and the linear polarization of tensor perturbations. We show that off-diagonal TBTB and EBEB spectrum as well as on- and off-diagonal TT,EE,BB,TETT, EE, BB, TE spectrum are induced from anisotropic inflation. We emphasize that the off-diagonal spectrum induced by the cross correlation could be a characteristic signature of anisotropic inflation.

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@article{arxiv.1011.3604,
  title  = {Imprints of anisotropic inflation on the cosmic microwave background},
  author = {Masa-aki Watanabe and Sugumi Kanno and Jiro Soda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.3604},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

5 pages, 2 figures;(v2) references added;(v3) replaced with the version accepted by MNRAS Letters