WMAP First Year Sky Map: Hints of Poincare Dodecahedral Topology
Astrophysics
2016-12-21 v2
Abstract
Several analyses of the cosmic microwave background map made by the satellite WMAP suggest that the global shape of a spatial section of the Universe is that of a Poincare dodecahedral space. A summary of some of these analyses and a description of independent tests which should be able to either increase confidence in the hypothesis or else refute it to extremely high significance will be presented.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0602401,
title = {WMAP First Year Sky Map: Hints of Poincare Dodecahedral Topology},
author = {Boudewijn F. Roukema},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0602401},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
v1 submitted to Proceedings of the Albert Einstein Century International Conference, held in Paris, France, July 18-22, 2005 - after it is published, it will be found at http://proceedings.aip.org/proceedings/, v2 has minor correction to one reference