Suppression of long-wavelength CMB spectrum from the Hartle-Hawking wave function in Starobinsky-type inflation model
Abstract
The lack of correlations on the large scale cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy provides a potential window to probe beyond the standard inflationary scenario. In this paper, we investigate the primordial power spectrum based on the Hartle-Hawking (HH) no-boundary proposal for a homogeneous, isotropic, and spatially-closed universe that leads to a Starobinsky-type inflation after the classicalization. While we found that there is no suppression at large scales in the standard R + R^2 theory, we also found that it is possible to sufficiently suppress the large-scale power spectrum if a pre-inflation stage is introduced to the Starobinsky-type model. We calculate the C^TT_l correlation function and show that our proposal gives a better fit to the Planck CMB data. l This suggests that our universe might have begun with a compact HH state with a small positive curvature.
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@article{arxiv.1903.12045,
title = {Suppression of long-wavelength CMB spectrum from the Hartle-Hawking wave function in Starobinsky-type inflation model},
author = {Pisin Chen and Hsiao-Heng Yeh and Dong-han Yeom},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.12045},
year = {2019}
}
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19 pages, 8 figures