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The $a$-theorem and temperature of the CMB temperature in cosmology

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-05-21 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Initial conditions in cosmology in the form of the microcanonical density matrix of the Universe predict a thermal nature of the primordial CMB power spectrum with a nonzero temperature of the resulting relict temperature distribution. This effect generates a thermal contribution to the red tilt of this spectrum, additional to its vacuum component. In the cosmological model with a large number of free fields conformally coupled to gravity the magnitude of this effect is determined by the Gauss-Bonnet coefficient \mbox{\boldmatha} of the trace anomaly. For low spins it is too small to be presently observable, but it can be amplified by the mechanism of the \mbox{\boldmatha}-theorem applied to the renormalization group flow which interpolates between the ultraviolet and infrared domains associated respectively with early and late stages of cosmological evolution.

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@article{arxiv.1305.4223,
  title  = {The $a$-theorem and temperature of the CMB temperature in cosmology},
  author = {A. O. Barvinsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.4223},
  year   = {2013}
}

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4 pages, revtex