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Possible Explanation to Low CMB Quadrupole

Astrophysics 2009-11-10 v2

Abstract

The universe might experience many cycles with different vacua. The slow-roll inflation may be preceded by kinetic-dominated contraction occurring in "adjacent" vacua during some cycles. In this report we briefly show this phenomenon may lead to a cutoff of primordial power spectrum. Thus in some sense the CMB at large angular scale might encode the information of other vacua.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0502343,
  title  = {Possible Explanation to Low CMB Quadrupole},
  author = {Yun-Song Piao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0502343},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, 3 eps figures, accepted for publication in PRD, v2 revised with published version