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Modified Mukhanov-Sasaki equation and primordial perturbations in $κ$-deformed non-commutative space-time

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2026-07-27 v1

Abstract

We study the inflationary primordial perturbations in κ\kappa-Minkowski non-commutative space-time, a Lie-algebraic type deformation of canonical space-time motivated by quantum gravity scenarios. Employing the κ\kappa-deformed star product formalism, we construct the bilinear action for curvature perturbations and derive the κ\kappa-deformed Mukhanov-Sasaki equation and obtain the perturbative solutions. Further, we compute the primordial power spectrum and spectral index, showing that the leading order corrections to the power spectrum induces scale-dependent term proportional to (lnk)2(\ln k)^2. The spectral index also exhibits an explicit lnk\ln k dependence, which persists even when the slow-roll parameters are constant. We also perform a Bayesian MCMC analysis using ACT DR6 data and constrain the κ\kappa-deformation length scale to λ=6.324.30+6.00×1030m\lambda=6.32^{+6.00}_{-4.30}\times10^{-30}m at 1σ1\sigma CL, approximately four orders of magnitude larger than the Planck scale, demonstrating that the κ\kappa-deformed space-time offers a potential window into quantum gravity phenomenology through precision cosmology.

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@article{arxiv.2607.24277,
  title  = {Modified Mukhanov-Sasaki equation and primordial perturbations in $κ$-deformed non-commutative space-time},
  author = {Yang Lei and Vishnu Rajagopal and Puxun Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.24277},
  year   = {2026}
}