Inflation, quantum fields, and CMB anisotropies

DOI10.1007/S10714-009-0850-6zbMATH Open1176.83140arXiv0909.0026OpenAlexW3103822400MaRDI QIDQ1031889FDOQ1031889

Authors: Gonzalo J. Olmo, Leonard Parker, Ivan Agullo, José Navarro-Salas 

Publication date: 23 October 2009

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Inflationary cosmology has proved to be the most successful at predicting the properties of the anisotropies observed in the cosmic microwave background (CMB). In this essay we show that quantum field renormalization significantly influences the generation of primordial perturbations and hence the expected measurable imprint of cosmological inflation on the CMB. However, the new predictions remain in agreement with observation, and in fact favor the simplest forms of inflation. In the near future, observations of the influence of gravitational waves from the early universe on the CMB will test our new predictions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.0026

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zbMATH Keywords

renormalizationcosmologyinflationcosmic microwave background

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25)

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