Modified Mukhanov-Sasaki equation and primordial perturbations in $κ$-deformed non-commutative space-time
Abstract
We study the inflationary primordial perturbations in -Minkowski non-commutative space-time, a Lie-algebraic type deformation of canonical space-time motivated by quantum gravity scenarios. Employing the -deformed star product formalism, we construct the bilinear action for curvature perturbations and derive the -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 . The spectral index also exhibits an explicit 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 -deformation length scale to at CL, approximately four orders of magnitude larger than the Planck scale, demonstrating that the -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}
}