A Causal Source Which Mimics Inflation

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.77.4138MaRDI QIDQ4492349zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors N. Turok

Publication date 16 July 2000

Published in Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9607109

zbMATH Keywords

causal sourcecosmic microwave anisotropyinflationary models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: How unique are the inflationary predictions for the cosmic microwave anisotropy pattern? In this paper, it is asked whether an arbitrary causal source for perturbations in the standard hot big bang could effectively mimic the predictions of the simplest inflationary models. A surprisingly simple example of a `scaling' causal source is found to closely reproduce the inflationary predictions. This letter extends the work of a previous paper (ref. 6) to a full computation of the anisotropy pattern, including the Sachs Wolfe integral. I speculate on the possible physics behind such a source.

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• Primordial Gaussian fluctuations from cosmic defects

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