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Pre-inflationary genesis with CMB B-mode polarization

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-06-19 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Recent B-mode polarization observation seems to imply the tensor tilt nT1n_T\gtrsim 1 at large angular scale, if the primordial signal is dominated. We show that for a primordial universe, which is in a slowly expanding genesis phase before the slow-roll inflation, the primordial tensor spectrum will get a large-scale cutoff, i.e. nT1n_T\gtrsim 1 at large scales while nT0n_T\simeq 0 at small scale. We find that this inflationary scenario not only may be consistent with the observation, but also predicts a large-scale anomaly in BB power spectrum, i.e. due to the large suppression of tensor perturbation amplitude we will hardly see the reionization bump at low-ll, which may be falsified by the Planck polarization data.

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@article{arxiv.1405.1188,
  title  = {Pre-inflationary genesis with CMB B-mode polarization},
  author = {Zhi-Guo Liu and Hong Li and Yun-Song Piao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.1188},
  year   = {2015}
}

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