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Suppressing CMB Quadrupole with a Bounce from Contracting Phase to Inflation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-07-18 v1 Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Recent released WMAP data show a low value of quadrupole in the CMB temperature fluctuations, which confirms the early observations by COBE. In this paper, a scenario, in which a contracting phase is followed by an inflationary phase, is constructed. We calculate the perturbation spectrum and show that this scenario can provide a reasonable explanation for lower CMB anisotropies on large angular scales.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0310206,
  title  = {Suppressing CMB Quadrupole with a Bounce from Contracting Phase to Inflation},
  author = {Yun-Song Piao and Bo Feng and Xinmin Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0310206},
  year   = {2011}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures