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 and spectrum as well as on- and off-diagonal 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